And so there are
more and more authors constantly coming on to the market, which is great.
Not exact matches
BMW, Mercedes,
and Audi
constantly duke it out to see who can pack the most tech, power,
and luxury into every car they sell,
and while this
author is certainly okay with
more fun - to - drive alternatives out there, what's left for the buyer who wants nothing to do with lap times
and everything to do with swaddling comfort?
New
authors are
constantly discovering selfpublishing
and are slowly moving away from traditional publishing, although many still consider a traditional deal to be
more prestigious
and better for book store distribution
and marketing.
Smashwords announced last week that
authors have now uploaded a 100,000 th title to its catalog, BookBaby is
constantly unveiling new features for both print
and digital self - publishing
and developing partnerships with even
more online ebookstores, even Amazon's KDP Select venue is continuing to gain popularity with both self - published
authors and the Kindle Prime member - readers who borrow those ebooks.
In a world where we're being
constantly told that piracy will kill sales
and that
authors, musicians
and the rest will have to rely on live gigs — these bookings become even
more critical.
Which, given how the marketing rule of 1 % (1 out of a hundred will look at a product / sample) seems to apply to free books (Readers
and authors constantly say they rarely read them due to the amount of books they compile), doesn't make it a viable option when using the free days to activate Amazon's algorithms can be
more effective.
For one, I've made a bunch of new
author friends,
and I'm
constantly meeting
more.
Of course it's easy to compare myself with other
more successful
authors just when I'm getting ready to submit agent letters, but I have to
constantly remind myself that the journey I'm taking looks
and feels different for each
author.