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Originally Posted by JaganP
I am big supporter of eBooks. I have two ebooks on sale on Amazon and they have done fairly well (about a 100 copies each) in my opinion. They go for cheap and the research I have done in those two ebooks is not stuff you find in other books or online. So for what its worth, the buyer has a niche article/ebook at a relatively cheap price.
And there is no dealing with publishers and rejections. Yes not everyone has a Kindle or a Kindle app on their phone /PC but someday there will be lesser resistance to the ebook reader - especially with the proliferation of tablet pcs.
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Speaking as someone who works for a publishing company, manuscripts are never rejected for no reason. The most common reason? They are badly written. The next reason is that they are poorly presented and not thought out well. One thing we tell our authors is "do your research," which is time consuming, but must be done. The fact is, most only do a little.
My company would go out of business in 30 days if we only sold about 100 copies of two books each.
Since I have access to actual book trade information, the acceptance level for e-readers is dropping. From January 2012:
"A study presented by book marketing firm Verso Advertising at Digital Book World last week finds that 15.8 percent of book buyers already own an e-reader — that figure has doubled since 2010. But 51.8 percent of book buyers say they are “not at all likely” to purchase one in the next 12 months. That is up from 40 percent in 2009."
Finally, and I am addressing this to all authors, the e-book market is being glutted with junk. I refuse to pay even 99 cents for junk.
A good publisher can be your friend, guide and mentor. However, I know that some view the publisher as the enemy. There should be actual cooperation between publishers and authors, but I do know authors that don't think this can be the case. Publishers bring their knowledge and experience to a manuscript that they consider publishable.
Best,
Ed