Comments on: My disillusionment, let me show you it.

By: Selah March

Selah March — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:25:41 +0000

Thanks for the numbers breakdown, Anon76. You’re right – depressing to the tune of CHa-CHING!

By: Anon76

Anon76 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:30:40 +0000

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

By: Selah March

Selah March — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:15:07 +0000

Meh. I commented there, too.

I’m ready for this to be over now. Please, can it be over now?

I can’t even imagine how much the Harl authors want it finished.

By: Barb Ferrer

Barb Ferrer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:56:17 +0000

Re: the post to which you’re linked–

“Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.”

Well, that just says it all in eight short words, don’t it?

*wry smile*

By: Selah March

Selah March — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:52:13 +0000

Eva~ Yes, I think she’s very fair and even-handed, too.

Kristen~ No, I hadn’t seen it. Thanks for the heads up.

By: Kristen Painter

Kristen Painter — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:37:10 +0000

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By: Eva

Eva — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:57:36 +0000

I love Allison’s post. That was an awesome, so honest and educational. But I like that she doesn’t dismiss self publishing out of hand.

By: Selah March

Selah March — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:51:49 +0000

More likely, they don’t care. Nor do they seem to care much about their own authors and readers. Every Harl author I’ve ever known was a Harl reader first. Way to ruin a beautiful relationship, yes?

By: Lynne Connolly

Lynne Connolly — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:22:19 +0000

I hear you, Selah. I am heartsick about this, too. I thought Harlequin were smarter, but they don’t even seem to know the difference between vanity publishing and self publishing.