In his top 5 ebook predictions for 2011, US ebook guru Mark Coker says that, as 2010 was the year ebooks went mainstream, 2011 will be the year indie authors go mainstream.
Agents will be encouraging their new authors to work directly with ebook distribution platforms. Authors can showcase not only their writing and storytelling skills, but their marketability as well. In hard figures. Agents will then use these for leverage when negotiating print deals.
The US (plus France, Holland, Japan and many countries in Asia) are ahead of the UK, but, in the past few months, momentum here has soared. Next year's growth trajectory is going to be steep. It looks like the UK will be on a more parallel course for change as it happens in the US.
Five Ebook Predictions for 2011 - Huffington Post
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