The keys to epublishing success 2012

Does paranormal really outsell science fiction by 2:1? Whoa.

Cheers for the post.

We also don't know what the people epublishing and not selling well look like. Data is good, but you have to be careful not to over stretch it. That said, it looks intuitively about right to me.

DerekJCanyon said:

Kiwi, remember, my analysis is based on incomplete data. I can only analyze the authors that publicize their sales numbers. Having said that, paranormal does seem to be outselling scifi, unless scifi authors are staying mum about their sales.

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Fair enough. Wasn't disputing it, just registering my surprise.

kiwiviktor81 said:

Does paranormal really outsell science fiction by 2:1? Whoa.

Cheers for the post.

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I'm not surprised. I frequent the query letter section here in AW and I'm always surprised at the number of people writing paranormal/urban fiction.

These books are self-published, not epublished. A title change might be in order for this thread.

mscelina said:

These books are self-published, not epublished. A title change might be in order for this thread.

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I see your concern, but I think it being in the self-publishing section is enough, isn't it?

kiwiviktor81 said:

Does paranormal really outsell science fiction by 2:1? Whoa.

Cheers for the post.

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I have no doubt that paranormal outsells SF at 2:1. However, in my strange, very strange case, my latest SF release has outsold my paranormal at a rate of 3:1. I attribute 85% of my sales to the free trials of the book and a prequel short story on Amazon.

We are in the self-publishing forum and the title identifies the subset of epublished within self-published. Seems clear to me.

mscelina said:

These books are self-published, not epublished. A title change might be in order for this thread.

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veinglory said:

We are in the self-publishing forum and the title identifies the subset of epublished within self-published. Seems clear to me.

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I've looked at the blog post in question and it's clearly discussing writers who have self-published electronic versions of their books. That they've self-published doesn't mean that they can't use the term "e-published", especially when it's correct (as it is in this case).

I do understand that e-publishing does not always equate to self-publishing but often it does. Sorry, mscelina, but I'm with veinglory here.