The last few weeks have been strange. While I've begun experimenting with self publishing ebooks written by me and my wife, watching our numbers and planning for price increases, advertising, and promotional discounts to put into place next month, I've been watching from the sidelines as my wife's current paperback publisher, Dorchester, slowly crumbles.
First Dorchester announced that they were discontinuing producing paperbacks. They're going to do ebooks and POD trade paperbacks only. Today they let two of their editors go and only have one left, my wife's editor who she loves. Writers are fleeing the house like rats from a sinking ship.
Meanwhile, my self-publishing numbers have been good, considering it's the first three weeks. I think they'll be even better next month when I include advertising and promotional deals. Right now, the books are so cheap that we're barely making any money off them and couldn't possibly consider ads or discounts. If this thing takes off, who knows what kind of services a small company could offer.
So, as the big house that I once tried to get published under (Dorchester) appears to be going the way of so many failed companies these days, a new, small, independent publishing house may be sprouting.
Keep in touch. Much more to come in the future...
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