Comments on: Harlequin Enters the Self-Publishing World http://kelleyandhall.com/blog/2009/11/harlequin-enters-the-self-publishing-world/ Book publicity and promotion Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anon76 http://kelleyandhall.com/blog/2009/11/harlequin-enters-the-self-publishing-world/comment-page-1/#comment-1847 Anon76 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:54:45 +0000 http://kelleyandhall.com/blog/?p=272#comment-1847 Author Solutions published 13,000 titles last year. Titles that vary in content and quality. Titles that perhaps didn’t quite fit a publisher’s existing lines. Those books already exist, but are the readers buying them? And if not, why? (IMHO they aren’t. 2,500,000 copies were sold of 13,000 titles. That first number sounds impressive, right? But divide that down to the average number of copies sold per title = 192. Depressing.) Those books I spoke of are no different than the products readers will receive through Harlequin Horizons. Because these are Author Solutions products, not Harlequin products. Products designed to lure in writers, not readers. (13,000 packages sold to writers at a BASE price of $599 multiplies out to $7,887,000. Cha-ching ) Author Solutions published 13,000 titles last year. Titles that vary in content and quality. Titles that perhaps didn’t quite fit a publisher’s existing lines. Those books already exist, but are the readers buying them?

And if not, why? (IMHO they aren’t. 2,500,000 copies were sold of 13,000 titles. That first number sounds impressive, right? But divide that down to the average number of copies sold per title = 192. Depressing.)

Those books I spoke of are no different than the products readers will receive through Harlequin Horizons. Because these are Author Solutions products, not Harlequin products. Products designed to lure in writers, not readers. (13,000 packages sold to writers at a BASE price of $599 multiplies out to $7,887,000. Cha-ching )

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