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Murphy's Stunt Double:
Yes, he did. But he's Stephen King and he could sell mimeographs of his grocery list and people would fall all over themselves to buy it.  :D

Actually, snarky comment aside, he's got years and years of brand recognition in his name, he has the freedom to publish in any format and people already know the quality of his work (whether they like it or not is their own opinion. They know what they're getting.)

For an "unpublished" author, the perception is still that the quality is not there, or that the writer doesn't have enough faith in his own work to persevere.

It's also very rare for a reputable publishing company to touch a book after it has been published via self-publishing in any form.... but it's not completely unheard of. James Redfield's Celestine Prophecy was self-published and was such a word of mouth success that Warner Books came to him and offered to publish a second printing. Ten years or so later, the book became a movie.

So, anything's possible.

sights unseen:
Got a reply back. Didn't sound too happy that I asked for the information:

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"Ms. James,

We do not have “public sales” figures and releasing numbers on sales would be a violation of author privacy.

I can tell you that we average 200,000 visitors a month to our website.

Deanna Lee

Yahoo IM ID: deannaleebooks
www.deannaleebooks.com
www.cobblestone-press.com

http://nakedpublisher.blogspot.com/
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Firstly, it's Ms. Jones , and I would think if they sold a lot they would say something like, "we average 10,000 book sales a month." I didn't ask for individual sales, just what was their sales figures in general. Oh well. 

And visitors and buyers are two separate animals.  ::)

I'll contact the gal that publishes there and see what she says. I'll let ya'll know later.  ;)

Murphy's Stunt Double:
Cool!

Thanks for sharing.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: sights unseen on September 02, 2007, 07:18:48 PM ---Didn't Stephen King do an eBook on Amazon? And I know Amazon also sells eBooks too. And from what I've read, you could put hundreds of books on one CD, or whatever it uses. I think eBooks will eventually creep into our everday worlds where we don't give it a second thought.

--- End quote ---

Writers who already have something of a name seem to be able to do themselves some good with eBook distribution.  Charlie Stross talks about this in public a lot; Cory Doctorow does too, and I think they have both quoted figures.  Likewise Baen's Bar seems to be doing rather well, though again that's affiliated with a print publisher of long-standing known reputation.

I very much doubt e-publishing a first novel by an unknown author is a good idea.

Mickey Finn:
At this point in time, e-books for first times authors are looked upon as if a vanity press.

IE, not good, and not professional.

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