Indie Authors: Don’t Rely On E-Books

Jessica Russell
999 Writer Problems
4 min readSep 23, 2022

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Why You Should Publish To Paperback Too

I’ve been self-publishing for over a decade now. For the sake of my ego, I will point out that I have had a literary agent and am also non-self-published as a poet so there is some quality control there.

With my first books published in 2011, and no longer available, I only published to Kindle.

The current book is available in both Kindle and paperback but the paperback version outsells the e-book every day of the week. Here’s a very typical chart from my sales dashboard.

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Jessica Russell
999 Writer Problems

Freelance writer. ADHD PhD research student. Educator. Author of The Life of Louise Norton Little, Mother of Malcolm X http://jessicarussell.co.uk/