What About All The Authors Whose Books Don’t Sell Very Many Copies?

Alexander M Zoltai:

So much hype now about being a “successful” author…

Such a lack of clear information about the real odds of monetary success…

I’m reblogging the most important post I’ve done, so far, about book sales in the digital age…

Originally posted on Notes from An Alien:

An extremely small percentage of writers sell more than 500 copies of a book…

One source I checked said this:

“…in 2004, 950,000 titles out of the 1.2 million tracked by Nielsen Bookscan sold fewer than 99 copies. Another...