Inside the Collapse: What Traditional Publishers Don’t Want You to Know About Their Imminent Demise

Mark Dawson ditched his traditional publisher, and turned his John Milton series into a 7-figure income.

My old co-author, M.J. Rose (R.I.P.!), self-published her first book, Lip Service, sold 75K copies of that, and landed traditional contracts for that and her later books. However, she also became disillusioned with traditional publishing, and went out on her own again.

There are many similar stories online!

According to Barrett-Koehler, “Total book industry revenues in the U.S. are no higher than they were twenty years ago, and, adjusted for inflation, they have shrunk.” They added, “A book has far less than a 1 percent chance of being stocked in a particular bookstore.” They also confirmed that, “Most book marketing today is done by authors, not by publishers.”

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