Despite the fact that the package usually includes the work of
big name authors rather than indies, it is up to the reader who decides which distributing channel can broaden the sales revenue and the quality of the content delivered by hardworking authors that will ultimately attract new readers.
Not exact matches
The truly hilarious thing about this sentence is that if Leonard is right — that Amazon is starting a «class war» between
authors, then Leonard is deliberately siding with the «one - percenters» of the publishing world — the Turows, Prestons, and Kings,
rather than the ninety - nine percent of
authors who can only dream of the volume of sales enjoyed by those
big -
name authors.
Also, while dinosaurs, some of the
big six may survive if they gut their marketing departments (or spin these off as add agencies focused on top 10
authors only), define more standard T&C s (which they will get away with with their new
authors, whereas the
big names who could negotiate a better deal will anyway be hiring editors by the hour and publishing direct on amazon etc) and change business model to promote not
authors (who are fundamentally un-ownable now you can easily self or amazon publish) but
rather their own editorial abilities.