Let's discuss: Misconceptions of Self vs. Traditional Publishing
Channel: The Hexed Library
Date: 2022-09-23

Today's video is a bit of response video to one that was shared with me. While everyone is free to their own opinions and I have no issue with someone wanting to trad pub (I do too!) I do have an issue with the disrespect those opinions showed this community that I love. So here's where I stand on a few things and some further information for you to mull over if you have questions about some common misconceptions of the differences between self and traditional publishing.

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A Clarification of the 50% tweet. Since I filmed this there has been a lot of information going around but Kristen McClean from BookScan has done some digging and found that it's more like 15% sell less than 12 copies but 66% sell less than 1,000 copies. You can read her comment on  Lincoln Michel's post where she breaks this all down here: https://countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-books-dont-sell-only-a-dozen
A fantastic round up of the Barnes and Noble shelving debacle from Michelle Schusterman: https://youtu.be/kiHSZj2nfIo

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