Can anyone point me to reasonably solid data on:
1) What percent of books submitted to traditional publishers are acquired and published
2) What percent of self-published books go on to be picked up by traditional publishers
I already suspect that 1) is pretty small and 2) is even smaller, so I don’t need to be told that, or to be pointed to anecdotal articles on how easy or difficult either sort of publishing is.
But I haven’t had much luck finding numbers, but on both really), and it occurs to me that it would be a lot easier to discuss both forms of publishing with those numbers in hand.