Thursday Tidbit: Why Indie Publishing Will Continue to Grow

To varying degrees, big and small publishing houses are worried about the Indie Publishing trend. I say to varying degrees because some of the larger or more arrogant ones think they can ignore or bully their way past the threat of losing more and more talented, ambitious authors to the siren call of Indie Publishing. As Indie grows, submissions to traditional publishers have slowed. The submissions they receive are more and more weighted toward new authors, which means they bring more risk and less in the way of an established readership to fill the publisher's coffers. In addition, more and more authors are asking for their rights back so they can republish the books themselves.