It's Hard Out There for Everyone
One thing that is lost in the self-publishing/traditional publishing debate is just how hard it is to sell any kind of book. It’s as if pointing out that it’s difficult to sell self-published books, it implies it’s easy to sell traditionally-published books. It’s not – it’s hard to sell everything. One of the criticisms of self-publishing is people saying, “But self-publishers need to market all the time! When is there time to write???” Unless you’re Dan Brown, or some other high-profile writer, most writers have to spend a whole lot of time marketing.
This could be an argument against self-publishing: […]