{"id":9311,"date":"2018-01-24T13:19:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/?p=9311"},"modified":"2018-01-24T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:19:37","slug":"author-earnings-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/?p=9311","title":{"rendered":"Author Earnings Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/authorearnings.com\/report\/january-2018-report-us-online-book-sales-q2-q4-2017\/\">Author Earnings put out a new report this week on the state of the book industry<\/a>. It&#8217;s really interesting and definitely worth the read.<\/p>\n<p>What I especially like is that of the top 1000 bestselling authors on Amazon, something like 28 percent of them are indie writers.<\/p>\n<p>I think the lesson is clear, especially for new writers. If you&#8217;re a new writer, don&#8217;t waste your time trying to find a publisher or agent. (A few weeks ago I saw many young writers making it their New Year&#8217;s Res<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">olution to submit to agents more, which is an enormous waste of time.) Rather, if you&#8217;re serious, self-publish your books and learn to market them yourself. You&#8217;ll be happier, have more freedom, and (probably) will make more money than if you were with a traditional publisher.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Like, my post from yesterday, where I changed the title of SILENT ORDER: MASTER HAND three weeks before it comes out? Can&#8217;t do that if you&#8217;re traditionally published!<\/p>\n<p>-JM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Earnings put out a new report this week on the state of the book industry. It&#8217;s really interesting and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrata","category-ebooks"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZ6ri-2qb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HundredDollars.jpg?fit=1364%2C584&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9312,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions\/9312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}