Authors No Longer Compete with Themselves!
Used to be when I first published at Delacorte, one of the last things an agent or editor wanted was for an author to publish two books at the same time. They called this splitting sales. In other words, by publishing two books at the same time, an author ran the risk of competing with him or herself.
Now, with the new indie publishing model, it seems that authors don't compete with themselves by publishing more than one book at the same time, they simply get more sales and more space on the infinite virtual bookshelf. And in some cases sales can be multiplied not by two, but by exponential numbers.
Recently, StoneGate Ink re-released my novel As Catch Can, under the new title The Innocent....
get the rest of the scoop from the VOX:
http://vincentzandri.blogspot.com/201...
Now, with the new indie publishing model, it seems that authors don't compete with themselves by publishing more than one book at the same time, they simply get more sales and more space on the infinite virtual bookshelf. And in some cases sales can be multiplied not by two, but by exponential numbers.
Recently, StoneGate Ink re-released my novel As Catch Can, under the new title The Innocent....
get the rest of the scoop from the VOX:
http://vincentzandri.blogspot.com/201...
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Brendan
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Oct 30, 2010 07:08AM
Isn't this an odd twist on the numbers game? I've wondered about it myself.
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I know myself when I find an author I like, I load up my Kindle with his/her books. The Kindle makes it so easy to have all the titles available anytime anywhere!
Yah, and lets face it, books are so much more affordable this way....:)
Kindle swindle, I say. People flagrantly throw a paperback's worth of cash away everyday on a pack of cigarettes or some other nonsense. I'm glad if e-readers increase reader voracity, but they are ultimately sucking cash from the book industry. It may not be the author that's hit in this case, but publishers and bookshops will be squeezed to death. And believe me, if this happens we will lose quality and the cultural impetus on which it depends.
