Don't let your daughter become a writer, Mrs Worthington!

 

 So your kid wants to be an author? It would be better, it seems, to persuade him or her become a plumber! There'll at least be food on the table, something by no means certain in the case of self-published authors.
 According to a new report from Digital Book World, most self-published authors make less than $1,000 from their writing efforts and almost 80% of self-published authors and more than half of traditionally published authors, earn less than $1,000 a year. A little more than 40 percent of hybrid authors (both traditionally published and self-published) made less than $1,000 a year and not surprisingly, 90 percent of the aspiring authors made nothing.
  Digital Book World interviewed almost 10,000 traditionally published authors,self-published authors, authors who are both traditionally published and self-published, along with aspiring authors for the report, “What Advantages Do Traditional Publishers Offer Authors: A Comparison of Traditional and Indie Publishing from the Authors’ Perspective,”
 The research revealed that only 10 percent of traditionally published authors made more than $20,000 a year and 5 percent of self-published authors made more than $20,000 a year.

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