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How many people will typically read the average novel on a crowdsourcing website -- and are these people also called beta readers?

• Are we talking, on average, 3, or 20, or 200 readers? I have no ideas how these sites work or how large the population of readers is.

• Answer:

  This could be interpreted as a trick question in the sense that the crowd sits are meant to attract readers, and often sponsors, for unfinished works. Then the answer is toward the low end. "Average novel" is also an interesting term since it could be like the conventional hardcopy or ebook publishers where people begin the first chapter or so, but do not read it all and are subject to the long tail of a minimal number of hits followed by mostly lowest volumes. The meme phenomenon shows it likelier to go viral soon if at all. Markets are growing though and India supposedly has twice the readership of the US, for instance. The next closest tracking stat may be the number of followers that the author has since they tend to bring the audience along with them, particularly if they are new. This may be in the upper half of the range. The average number for twitter users is reported to be anywhere from 61 to 208, for example. It may instead be necessary to poll the novelists that are closes to the proposed publication to get their numbers since these are not broadcast by the sites. Someone who has multiple titles may get more readers per. It also goes up if they are already famous. There were about 400,000 self-published titles in 2012. Leanpub is reportedly dedicated to this, as is Unbound. Kickstarter and Indiegogo have been popular recently; the former reports about 43% success rate for all projects. The return depends upon promotion and can be less than expenses for initial users which include editing and production costs. Digital Book World said that half of traditional, and three-quarters of electronic, book writers made less than four figures. Promotion entails getting as much attention as possible on blogs, socnets, sites, speaking presentations, and video trailers. They also look for referrals, citations, and quantity purchases. The formats will include the tagline, synopsis, reviews,  notes, illustrations, and full length. Beside crowdfunding, crowdsource can be lots of writers, editors or readers. Free versions have no reason not to look at them. This includes creative commons. Length is inverse to completion. Popular genres seem to be mystery crime thriller, then scifi, literary and romance. Betas will provide feedback in the form of comments. Early on they may consider characters and plot, and finally critique wording. Writers tend to reciprocate for eachothers' work and there may also be fans who participate.