Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Mark Coker's predictions

Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, has ten predictions about ebook publishing in Media Bistro (link snagged obliquely from Moses Siregar III over on Kindleboards). Among his predictions: "Self publishing goes from option of last resort to option of first resort among unpublished authors," "Average ebook prices will decline, despite attempts by Agency 5 publishers to hold the line," "Readers will decide which books become hits, not publishers."

3 comments:

  1. "Self publishing goes from option of last resort to option of first resort among unpublished authors,"

    This was certainly true for me. I put the agent-querying on hold when I found Joe Konrath's blog a couple months ago. I actually got an offer for representation recently, but already had my first two ebooks online and decided to pass (I would have jumped all over that offer a few months earlier). I can have ebook 4 or 5 written, edited, and published (and hopefully earning money, laugh) by the time I could have that first book out in print.

    Anyway, thanks for the link guys!

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  2. Lindsay, I think getting off the submission merry-go-round is the best thing about indie publishing. Querying agents and publishers is a terrifically frustrating business. I still remember getting a rejection from a publisher for "All I Ever Wanted" a year after it was actually published with a small press, which means it took over two years to get a rejection. The whole submission process for traditional publishing is simply kind of insane.

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