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In a discussion about sales, a PA booster says that new authors sell, on average "500 books" a year. Someone posits that the number must be for other publishers, and not PA authors. (My own thought is, 500 books? 5,000 books, maybe, and that's for a small publisher)
This is the answer from the PA booster, emphasis mine:
The same old nonsense "I know how publishing works" answers with the surprising bit of reality that PA depends on them buying their own books. If only he could wake up and understand his own words. But then, one would have to understand how publishing really works to see why there's something so very wrong in PAland.
-- Joanna
This is the answer from the PA booster, emphasis mine:
I tend to agree with you that the number is actually lower, but I also belive that PA depends on what the author orders to help them make their money.
Many authors do not want to order copies of their own books, and that is sad. The book is an extenstion of yourself, and hopefully you will think enough of yourself and what you have written to promote the work.
Some people believe that everyone will run to the bookstore in mas and purchase their book, and this is not reality. We are unknowns in an oversaturated market, why do we think that someone, unless they know us will buy a book from an unknown author.
The same old nonsense "I know how publishing works" answers with the surprising bit of reality that PA depends on them buying their own books. If only he could wake up and understand his own words. But then, one would have to understand how publishing really works to see why there's something so very wrong in PAland.
-- Joanna