#PublishingReinvented 9 - The tipping point for writers + free training
What’s your tipping point?
We are at the tipping point where the majority of writers will want to indie publish, not get a traditional publishing deal.
Yes, there will be outliers for decades to come, people famous because of who they are or who they can expose, will still get large advances. If you are related to a Biden or a Trump for instance and have salacious gossip you will probably get trad published.
But the vast majority of writers, the hundreds of thousands who toil in back rooms, will never get a trad publishing deal and their only hope of finding readers is through the indie route.
And for most of the writers with some chance of being published, because of the quality of their writing, the indie world is now more attractive, because:
You decide when your book will be released, what cover will go with it, and how many rounds of editing you will do.
You will get paid every month by Amazon, not the archaic every 6 months system trad publishers still use.
And very importantly, you can get daily royalty data from Amazon and can judge what marketing tactics work for your book. Imagine waiting up to 9 months to find out if an ad campaign worked well - ridiculous.
And the trad publishing industry mostly sails on, regardless, as if nothing has changed.
And hordes of aspiring writers gather at the gates of Amazon, wondering how to break through to the big time.
And the answer is the same as it always has been, work hard to make your book great and have it presented in an amazing package, and your chances increase by the second.
And never stop working on your next book.
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Laurence O’Bryan
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