A fantastic post by Tara Sparling! Thank you so much to Winter Bayne for finding it!
In this post, I discussed the findings of a scientifically incontrovertible study (of myself) on the factors which influenced me when buying a self-published book.
The findings surprised me (which surprised me, because I was surveying myself). I found that I knew what made me buy a self-published book when it was in front of me, but not what put that book in front of me, unless I was browsing by genre (e.g. today I feel like reading a romance set in Ulaanbaatar: therefore I will now search specifically for such a story).
It was still hard to know what put those books in front of my eyes in order to buy them; to quote one of the commenters on that post – this is the thorny issue of “discoverability”. How will we find these books in the first place?
So I did the unthinkable, and asked some other people…
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It had a pretty graph…and dang you’re fast!
It was an awesome post and the other one on authors going indie was amazing as well! Thanks for those!
hahaha, I’m just now reading the indie one before I go out.
It’s crazy how publishing is changing! So smart that you’re doing both types of publishing!
What can I say, I got a plan 😉 Um, all I gotta do it make it happen somehow.
It IS happening! Right now! Not one but TWO publishing contracts, a brand sparking new look on your site with a domain name! You’re doing it, Winter!
There’s more to the plan, but yes it is happening. On to phase three of my world domination strategy, er I mean publishing career!
LOL!!
oh and try this link! http://tarasparlingwrites.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/what-puts-readers-off-self-published-books/
I’m on it!…so true! I sort of knew that before though.
Yeah, it’s mostly stuff we know but it’s good to see validation.
Try this one: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-coker/2014-book-publishing-indu_b_4533411.html
I raise you that link with one I sent to you on FB.
OMG You’re so funny! I’m off to FB.