I have worked in the publishing industry for over twenty years, been a published author, and had some
great sales
numbers (printed editions
of The Art
of Abundance over 95,000
copies sold total) and awful
numbers (the less said the better), lived through a publisher bankruptcy, ridden the waves
of change in the industry, and saw the bottom fall out in mid-2008, with all the folks I worked with laid off and my way
of making a living in traditional publishing disappear.