How many copies do average authors sell?

I posted earlier about the sales number for best-selling authors. What about the average author? Here’s Patrick Nielsen Hayden, an editor at Tor Books, in an interview on io9.com about the future effects of e-text on publishing: io9: Does it make a difference to you if an author has an online reputation? Does that go into

... Continue Reading ...

Is Product Popularity Random?

In Why Publishing is Making You Crazy—and What You Can Do About It: The Tao of Publishing, Steven Axelrod and Julie Anne Long write an interesting post that takes some findings made by Duncan Watts and attempts to explain why writers should only focus on the quality of their work because they cannot reliably affect popularity in any

... Continue Reading ...