No fool she, Friedman, who with Harry Bingham mounted
a fine author survey led by The Bookseller earlier this year, goes right to those guys at the zoo — «It's the old parable about blind men trying to describe an elephant» (drink)-- and she then points, as must we all, to that other large animal in the room:
Past
surveys were
fine if the goal was to look at what happens to highest - performing 1 % of books along one path with the lowest - performing 99 % of books along the other (remember that the top - selling indie
authors are taken out and labeled «hybrids»).