I invite you to contact me as soon as possible, especially if you are selling
very few copies of your book in your country (on Amazon or other self publishing platforms).
Not exact matches
While some rights holders have argued that the standard for a substantial is
very low (the National Post recently argued in a case that «even the reproduction
of a small number
of words in a newspaper article can be an impermissible reproduction»), the Copyright Board says that its preliminary view is that «
copying of a
few pages or a small percentage from a
book that is not a collection
of short works, such as poems, is not substantial.»
But in those rejections, there's hope for the indie writer — if you can develop your own platform and show that you've sold a
few thousand
copies of your self - published
book, it's
very likely that you will catch an agent or publisher's attention.
For every
book sold after 30,000 — and let's be clear *
very *
few cookbooks sell more than 30,000
copies — we would recoup at a rate
of $ 7.20 per
book and need to sell another 12,222
books before we saw another dime.
There are
very few of these people anyway and most understand that you can't be sending out hundreds
of copies of a
book when only 1 out
of 5 will fulfill their end
of the bargain.
With more and more self - published authors getting «discovered» by the traditional publishing industry and in many cases having their originally self - published
books redistributed by a major publishing house, what becomes
of those
few original
copies that readers came to love from the
very beginning?
Over a million
books are published each year, the majority
of which sell
very few copies.
I get good reviews so I think hte
books could sell well and I get
very little criticism
of copy for the last
few books.I would like to ask you both (and I will ask Liz on her blog) whether you think having an editor is critical or not?
If the writer in question earned $ 20k on a
book that sold a
few copies (perhaps because
of an unreasonable advance she somehow forced out
of the publisher), then you may consider that a sweet deal (one that is
very unfair to the publisher, who would likely never want to work with her again).
I gave quite a
few out at a talk I gave last night at a
book festival, and make a point
of inserting them into each print
copy in case people want to follow me later — but at the
very least it is an attractive freebie bookmark!