Huge logical flaw: He says that you're losing money when your book is awaiting publication.
He assumes that book sales will always be steady, that there is no life-cycle for ebooks. And he bases his numbers on his own experience, which means the data set is TINY and less than 24 months long.
I've been self-publishing successfully for five years now. Sales of the first book I put out have tapered significantly. It's new books that pay the bills, though the back-list is definitely helpful in normalizing the spikes and troughs of the book release cycle.
I think that electronic publishing is our eventual future, and that traditional publishers will have to change a lot to remain relevant, but I also think Konrath's argument is flawed to the point of being negligently misleading.
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He assumes that book sales will always be steady, that there is no life-cycle for ebooks. And he bases his numbers on his own experience, which means the data set is TINY and less than 24 months long.
I've been self-publishing successfully for five years now. Sales of the first book I put out have tapered significantly. It's new books that pay the bills, though the back-list is definitely helpful in normalizing the spikes and troughs of the book release cycle.
I think that electronic publishing is our eventual future, and that traditional publishers will have to change a lot to remain relevant, but I also think Konrath's argument is flawed to the point of being negligently misleading.