Bowker released their statistics for the output of new self-published titles in the US in 2012 — though as usual, they can only track books that carried ISBNs. That total — 391,000 titles — was up significantly over the 235,000 titles reported for 2011. As in the past, the top four producers accounted for over 80 percent of all the ISBN-carrying self-published titles. In order, the top producers are: CreateSpace (the biggest gainer) Smashwords (moving up into second) Lulu (moving up into third) Author Solutions But the Bowker counts do not include the vast pool — an unspecified hundreds of […]
