After a couple years of having an agent try to sell my novel to major New York publishing houses and getting a series of rejections, I decided to go the self publishing ebook route. (authormarketingclub.com)
But if you go the eBook route, and make the book available for $ 2.99 on Amazon, you get $ 2 per book, so you only have to sell 500 copies to make the same $ 1000. (redeeminggod.com)
Bottom line: If you are a first time author, and are having troubling breaking into print, there is almost no downside to trying the eBook route. (redeeminggod.com)