How big is self-publishing - the results | The Bookseller

On the Passive Guy website thriller writer Lee Child gave one of the most telling of comments in response to Shatzkin's blog. "Whichever numbers you choose to believe, e-reading gets a minority of eyeball time in a couple of major markets, and less than that in a handful of others. It's a small fishbowl. Even with the spectacular 70% return, it's a losing proposition for the one-percenters. So the disruptors have hard work ahead - they need to drag e-reading acceptance into an overwhelming global majority, without the one-percenters to help. If they manage it, then we'll jump ship, probably."