Inside the Collapse: What Traditional Publishers Don’t Want You to Know About Their Imminent Demise
Had we kept the rights, and just kept selling it ourselves, we’d have made FAR more money in the end, and we could have kept updating the book every few months. But, we couldn’t do that because St. Martin’s Press then owned all rights to it, and they didn’t want to issue an updated version. All told, St. Martin’s Press only sold 845 copies over the years. Of course, we never received anything beyond the initial advance. It was a HORRIBLE time- and money-wasting experience, and I have self-published ALL of my own books since then.
