Not exact matches
On the other hand, especially for
midlist authors, it does severely hurt their numbers;
really great way to help the authors you love, the ones whose books you want to buy, no?
Publishers
really live on the
midlist.
Smashwords does a great job of partnering with other sites to push the best sellers - who are already best selling and don't necessarily NEED a push (beyond the fact that everyone can always use more advertising), meanwhile there are
midlist authors who have no hope of hitting that best seller list (often because they were not traditionally published before, so didn't come with a fan base already established) and who have a great book, with good reviews, who could
really use the push / spotlight.
By late 2009, I'd left my agent and was a couple of years removed from the paperback
midlist, and despite staying busy with comics and screenplays, I
really wanted to meet fiction readers again.