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not if you want actual wide readership, as opposed to theoretical wide readership. Ask a blogger!

• DennisP 12y ago
  A friend of mine self-published her first novel early this year, sold 40K copies so far, and is doing very well with presales for the next. Most of her sales are on Kindle. She's friends now with a lot of other self-published authors who are also doing quite well. So I wouldn't say people need publishers anymore for wide readership.
  • tehwalrus 12y ago
    It is possible, I'm not convinced it's probable.
    • DennisP 12y ago
      Selling books in large quantities isn't all that probable with a traditional publisher, either. Even if they publish you, they usually don't market your book near as well as you'd hoped, and your royalties are a much smaller percentage of the sales price. With Amazon you can publish a book at $2.99 and keep 70% of that. I've seen a fair number of articles by people who'd published several books with traditional publishers, then decided the self-publish route paid more and got more books in the hands of readers.