IN the vast sea of digital fiction, one recently voiced trade perception is that there are more authors than there are readers. Whoopee for readers! The choice of titles has never been greater, yet are these books worth reading?
As an avid reader, I welcome the comment that an established epublisher gets from 50 to 500 submissions per week. How this will evolve into published fiction is a statistic still to be discovered. Individual publishers, so far, have been wary of issuing any sales figures.
Statistics for ebooks as a whole (which includes non-fiction) confirm rate of growth similar to past years. Sales have doubled annually since records began. But what