Comments on: 2024 Indie Author Survey Results: Insights into Self Publishing for Authors

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Taking the Pulse of Indie Publishing 2025 - Reader Views — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 16:16:13 +0000

[…] Here are highlights from a 2024 author survey from Written Word Media, a media company with a large community of authors, publishers, and industry professionals and subscribers. See: https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/2024-indie-author-survey-results-insights-into-self-publishing-for-… […]

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By: Tonya D. Price

Tonya D. Price — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:51:22 +0000

Great article full of valuable information. I am at the point where I am ready to and a ble to employ more marketing strategies. This was a great resource that I will recommend to my community. Thanks!

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Favorite Stories of the Year — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 13:01:11 +0000

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By: Ernie Zelinski

Ernie Zelinski — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:35:08 +0000

In reply to Jim DeFilippi. I first self-published 35 years ago and still prefer the term "indie". Indeed, I find the term repulsive. It's a trendy term and I dislike trendy terms. For the record, my books have sold over 1,100,000 copies and have been published in 22 languages in 29 countries. I have three true international bestsellers, ones that have sold ate least over 100,000 copies in print. One of my books has sold over 465,000 copies in all formats and another has sold over 320,000 copies.

By: Tamara Rose

Tamara Rose — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 19:18:15 +0000

Thanks for putting all this together it creates great fuel to write more books and focus on my funnels.

By: Michael Hourigan

Michael Hourigan — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 14:22:54 +0000

In reply to Barbara Ehrentreu. Hi Barbara! We do include YA author responses in this survey :) You can see the percentage of Young Adult authors who responded to the survey in the graph in this section.

By: Barbara Ehrentreu

Barbara Ehrentreu — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:29:39 +0000

A Very interesting and informative survey and I learned a lot. I was sad to see that Young Adult was not mentioned here. You can’t just lump all books into Children’s. As a YA writer I have found myself in the Children’s section during an event. YA does appeal to ages as young as eight and as old as adult. So you should add that category to your next survm aey. I enjoyed seeing all the information about different groups. As someone who has republished my book with KDP, they also have an option to use Ingram Spark so you can be in bookstores. Then you get paid for sales by Ingram Spark. I have also tried marketing with KDP and still need to see if there are results. Thank you for an excellent survey that should help a lot of Indie authors.