{"id":241,"date":"2006-03-05T21:59:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T02:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=241"},"modified":"2019-12-28T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T16:51:51","slug":"write-or-buy-a-lottery-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/write-or-buy-a-lottery-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Write, or buy a lottery ticket?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <em>Guardian<\/em> article on POD (publish on demand) books, we find this charming side dish:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . 50% of all published books with an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) tag sell fewer than 250 copies and barely more than 1% of manuscripts submitted ever get published.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting numbers; I don&#8217;t doubt they are true. Yeah, the odds are stacked against us.<\/p>\n<p>What I don&#8217;t understand is how POD is supposed to help. Sure, by publishing yourself, you are, technically, um, &#8220;published.&#8221; But does anyone think that by self-publishing, you can improve your chances of selling more than 250 copies? Even if Amazon does list your book?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, you bypass the multiple gateways of agents, editors, publishers, distributors, and booksellers. But not the readers. Ah, the readers . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Guardian article on POD (publish on demand) books, we find this charming side dish: . . . 50% of all published books with an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) tag sell fewer than 250 copies and barely more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/write-or-buy-a-lottery-ticket\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[773,772,244,298,241],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-writing","tag-book-sales","tag-print-on-demand","tag-publishing-2","tag-self-publishing","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5207,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/5207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}