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4th November 2010

“Even when the book sells, I’m constantly told, you only clear a dollar or two on the sale of a paperback, and three or four for a hardcover. There’s a cha-cha conga line of middlemen in the old-style publishing industry, editors and designers and agents and publishing houses and printers and distributors. Consider this: according to the Brenner Group, the average fiction book takes 475 hours to write — about two hours per page — and the average nonfiction book takes 725 hours, mostly because of all that extra research and fact-checking. Publisher’s Weekly reported in 2006 that among the 1.2 million books on Nielsen Bookscan, 950,000 sold less than 99 copies, and only 25,000 sold more than 5,000. The average book sold 500 copies. Do the math, and that’s not even a dollar per hour. Aspiring authors choose to enter a sweatshop of their own construction.”

~ On(,) Writing, The Mid-Majority