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For those of us hoping for a traditional publishing route, would direct selling be an option as well?
Yes, but only for the print edition. You would buy print copies to sell direct from the publisher and usually their discount isn’t the greatest for authors, typically 40 to 50 percent, maybe 60 percent if you are able to negotiate it at contract stage. If you know you want to sell direct from the very start (and have a strategy/avenue for doing so), then you could potentially join the publisher’s print run and get copies closer to cost.
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