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What I Learned about Indie Publishing in 2016: Full Sales & Figures

What I Learned about Indie Publishing in 2016: Full Sales & Figures

Where did the year go? It’s already the end of 2016 and the world has gone through some difficult changes and I feel battered myself. Sales for the third quarter report from Author Earnings showed significant marketing share shrinking for indie ebooks. Was that due to the election in the US? Or top indie authors moving out of the indie publishing category, falling under Amazon’s press? Or is the downtrend a sign of more to come?