Some people tend to look down their nose at books that are self-published--they may be missing out on some good reads. Yesterday, according to Publishers Weekly:
A staggering 764,448 titles were produced in 2009 by self-publishers and micro-niche publishers, according to statistics released this morning by R.R. Bowker. The number of "nontraditional" titles dwarfed that of traditional books whose output slipped to 288,355 last year from 289,729 in 2008. Taken together, total book output rose 87% last year, to over 1 million books.
That is an amazing stat; you can read the entire article here. I'm not sure what this revelation means as it relates to sales, but suffice it to say, traditional publishing is by no means "traditional" any longer.
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