From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 6/3/14 6:23 PM, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   > On 03/06/2014 18:31, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   >>      Another would be "PAID sales of your book over X thousand copies,   
   >> with the price of the book being not less than Y". The latter clause   
   >> eliminates the $0.01 and freebie books. I'd set Y at $1.99 probably, but   
   >> that's a discussion thing.   
   >   
   > Where would be a sensible place to draw a line? I'm not familiar with   
   > what makes a self published book a success, or at least a serious   
   > contender.   
   >   
      
   	Beats me. My standards would be different than others, that's for sure.   
   If I were setting it, I'd probably say over 2500 copies at $1.99 or   
   more, as that would bring you, to a minimum, to $5k, which is the lowest   
   advance I've ever gotten.   
      
   	The average self-pubbed book sells a few hundred. For the equivalent of   
   the traditional published, you want to recognize that self-published   
   books are the slush pile given life, so you want to choose the top ten   
   percent or even top one percent, those that represent the books that   
   actually could have made it past the real gantlet of editors. As you   
   don't want to judge MERIT, the only yardstick you have there will be   
   paid sales, and requiring a few thousand reasonably paid sales will   
   certainly winnow out most of them.   
      
      
      
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