What I can say is that, yes, I made more per
copy as an indie publisher.
Not exact matches
I did sign with an agent and I am anxious to sign that first deal with a traditional
publisher that he is working to line up for me because I see value in getting hard
copies into bookstores and gaining access to the international markets that would be difficult to penetrate
as an
indie - only writer.
In the past,
indie publishers were typically forced to order a required number of
copies as a first printing, and figure out how to sell and distribute them later.
If I had to guess, I think I probably would've sold ten or twenty thousand
copies here and there
as an
indie, but nowhere near what I've sold through
publishers.
However,
as Mark Coker argues, compared to many
indie authors who can get $ 1.80 - $ 2.10 out of each
copy of their ebooks sold at the price of $ 2.99, those authors who publish through the traditional
publishers are «at an extreme disadvantage» because they earn only $ 1.25 - $ 1.75 out of each
copy of their ebooks sold at the price of $ 9.99.
It's nice to see that
indie sites can still thrive, with even
publishers like Activision going so far
as to send review
copies of Modern Warfare 3 to the little guy.