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“Being an author is hard going for a great many, with the monetary outcome of each publishing model leaving much to be desired on average,” wrote author Dana Beth Weinberg, professor of sociology at Queens College, CUNY, as she revealed her findings.
She told the Guardian: “We see for the third year in a row – even though we made a strong effort to get representation in the survey from successful indie authors – that most authors aren’t making much money and most books sell very few copies. We also find that traditionally published authors and authors who combine traditional and indie publishing have higher annual incomes on average than indie-only authors. Last year, we took a lot of heat for these unpopular findings, especially from the indie community.”
The writer Hugh Howey, who hit bestseller charts with his self-published dystopian novel Wool, had criticised last year’s survey for “not captur[ing] the fact that self-publishing is going through a renaissance”, and for “cloud[ing] how nearly impossible it is to make a single cent through traditional publishing”.
But this year, said Weinberg, “even some of our loudest critics have acknowledged the harsh realities of the book market”.
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