The agents at the Backspace Conference gave advice concerning self-publishing. One theme was that should you decide to self-publish, make sure you do it right - get a professional editor to go through the manuscript, hire someone professional to do the cover art, etc.
Go into it with the understanding that 99.9% of those who self-publish will not sell more than a few dozen copies at most.
The most important point was that once you publish something, you now have a sales data track record. And a bad sales track record will kill your chances to ever get the book published by a major publishing house. For example, if you do not sell tens of thousands of copies of your self-published book, it will go on your record as bad sales data, and it will come to haunt you in the future.
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