Re: Author Earnings

**D* G* <g*@gmail.com>**

MP - I'm not aware of any large dataset on self published gardening books.
I have no idea about product life cycles on gardening books either (if that
was what you're asking) other than my own.

And heavy image ebooks are an issue all by themselves quite frankly.  It
depends on the layouts and a ton of factors beyond what I deal with. There
was an excellent book of poetry put out called "The Unworlds" that was
entirely image-based and very well done. It may be worth downloading it to
a Kindle reader just to see how they did it. :-)

All the marketing data and stuff anybody needs is out on the Net or in
ebooks for sure - and much of it works for non-fiction as well as fiction.
 I have a worksheet of to-do's that would choke that proverbial horse. :-)

It's a great time to be a writer quite frankly. :-)

Doug

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Mary Palmer Dargan <mpdargan@dargan.com>wrote:

> Doug, I read the paper with great interest.
>
> Last year I purchased Publishing Catapult, a kindle packager and created
> titles for future work.
>
> This analysis really lit a fire under my "soon to be" self-publishing
> empire. I had no idea of the profit my publisher makes on the 2 e-books
> already available that they cloned off my print editions. They do quite
> well in numbers!
>
> Are there metrics for PLMs that have image heavy landscape design books?
>  They are not exactly the models he quotes in the articles.
>
> Congratulations on your sales by the way! You are always an inspiration.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mary Palmer Dargan, asla
> Author, licensed landscape architect, lecturer
> 404-354-1715
>
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Doug Green
Head Weeder, Head Wordsmith
http://www.douggreensgarden.com/about.html <http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com>
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