David Gaughran > Quotes

“the majority of readers discovered their favorite author by getting a book for free,”
― David Gaughran, Let's Get Visible: How To Get Noticed And Sell More Books

“Every single industry that had been disrupted by the internet had claimed special status. Publishing was no different—first in dismissing the threat and then in demanding protection from the very threat it had once dismissed—”
― David Gaughran, Let's Get Digital: How to Self-Publish, and Why You Should

“Contrary to surprisingly persistent myths about self-publishers, we don’t simply fling word-poop out of the authorial monkey cage and hope for the best.”
― David Gaughran, Let's Get Digital: How to Self-Publish, and Why You Should

“probably the biggest complaint authors have in this brave new world is not sales (or the lack thereof) but the constant promotion that eats so much into precious writing time.”
― David Gaughran, Let's Get Visible: How To Get Noticed And Sell More Books

“They had stopped talking with each other years ago. Now they just talked at each other. Dr.”
― David Gaughran, Transfection

“I see self-publishers as the canary in the coal mine. Thousands of us, all around the world, are trying new things all the time and sharing the results. We are mostly one-person operations, so we can make and implement decisions on the fly. As such, we’re always a step or two ahead of large publishers.”
― David Gaughran, Let's Get Visible: How To Get Noticed And Sell More Books

“most of the truly great scientific discoveries were made by outsiders; the only way to shift the paradigm was to reject it in the first place. His”
― David Gaughran, Transfection

“How do we get noticed without driving ourselves crazy or crossing our own ethical boundaries? How do we make our books visible without spending so much time on promotion that we have nothing left for writing?”
― David Gaughran, Let's Get Visible: How To Get Noticed And Sell More Books

“Neil Gaiman originally took a strong stance against piracy. However, he noticed that in the countries where he was being pirated the most, such as Russia, sales were increasing, rather than decreasing. With some difficulty, he convinced his publisher to make American Gods a free download from their site for a month. Sales of that title through independent bookstores, which was the only data they could get, increased by 300%.”
― David Gaughran, Let's Get Visible: How To Get Noticed And Sell More Books

“If the world is at its most dangerous at night, he thought, surely it is safest in the early morning,”
― David Gaughran, If You Go Into The Woods