Jeremy Greenfield

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1/09/2014 @ 9:41AM |546 views

Authors: How Do You Want To Publish Your Next Book?

Despite the precipitous rise of self-publishing — both as a means to an audience and an income for so many authors who never would have had the opportunity before — more authors would prefer to publish their next book with a traditional publisher than go it alone, according to the latest data from the 2014 Digital Book World and Writer’s Digest Author Survey.

From the author of the upcoming report on the survey, Dana Beth Weinberg, professor of sociology at Queens College in New York:

Among traditionally published authors in the survey sample, only 7.5% expressed a preference to self-publish rather than to traditionally publish, compared to 10.1% of aspiring, 35.1% of self-published, and 29.8% of hybrid authors. While interest in self-publishing was higher among those respondents who had tried it, few authors reported that they only wanted to self-publish their next book.

Read her full post here, including information on the survey sample size and methodology.

Meanwhile, here’s a visual of how different kinds of authors would prefer to publish their next book:

AuthorPrefPubNextBook

Source: Digital Book World and Writer’s Digest Author Survey of 9,210 aspiring, self-published, traditionally published and hybrid authors. 

Weinberg will be discussing the findings from the survey at Digital Book World 2014.

 

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