More on marketing and genre choice…
It’s all well and good having written a book, what about selling it? Not wanting to talk dirty or anything, but seriously people, you’ve poured a lot of time into the who literary process, so it wouldn’t hurt to get a few bob back.
After all, a couple of weeks back I talked about how much it cost to produce this book. (So how much money is there in this book writing job anyway)
So how do you do it?
Well frankly I don’t think a lot of Indie author’s actually do any marketing. There was a fascinating article in the Guardian about the Self-Publishing boom.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/13/self-publishing-boom-lifts-sales-18m-titles-300m
It made the fascinating comment “18m self-published titles purchased, worth £59m,”
By my reckoning this means the average self-published book nets £3.27.
Even if 6m of the self-published titles are free this means the average purchased on brings in £4.91.
That…
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