An excellent conversation between Amanda Hocking and barry Eisler on self publishing and why each has chosen their respective course.

Amanda: I actually didn’t have to do the calculations, because the wonderful Joe Konrath did them a while ago on his blog. He repeatedly broke it down, so I knew going with a legacy publisher, I would make less money per ebook, and I would probably sell fewer ebooks because they would have a higher price.

But yes, the idea behind it is that I’ll make up for in physical books, and it will increase the flow of readers to my ebooks after they see my books in stores.

The advance didn’t really factor into my decision. The only reason I even cared about one is because I figured that the more money a publisher gave me, the harder they would work to earn it back.

http://www.twliterary.com/selfpub.html

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