Here’s a stat:

Each year, 500,000 to 1 million new books come out. Including self-published authors, the count reaches close to 4 million new book titles each year.

So, indie titles outweigh traditionally published books 3:1

Odds are pretty good that you will find more terrible indie books, which probably accounts for some of the hesitation to buy indie.

I’m an indie. I regularly read other indie books, usually because I am cross-promoting with them and I want to make sure they are right for my subscriber list. Are there some bad ones? Yup, but there are good ones as well.

Three million new indie books per year. I released my first books three years ago. I’m now competing with nine million books. No wonder indie authors struggle to stand out.

Wait. Make that Nine million one thousand and twenty-four.

(twenty-five …)

Niven is one of my favorite sci-fi authors.

Reading fiction is meant to be an escape, if only for a short time. If the author does it right, we can be those people or part of that world.