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January 2015 Author Earnings report
Dig up your munchies of choice, there's a new report from AUTHOR EARNINGS:
http://authorearnings.com/report/jan...rnings-report/ The executive summary says it all. Quote:
Here's a taste: Quote:
Turns out it isn't just indies that are forgoing them. Last edited by fjtorres; 01-28-2015 at 07:42 PM. |
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How do these folks find out those figures? Perhaps they ignore the advances major publisher authors receive, instead basing statistics on the royalties authors would receive if they ever earned out their advances -- something they usually don't. If so, a lot of the statistics make little sense. |
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It doesn't make any difference if authors get an advance unless of course they don't sell enough books to pay back the loan. The advance isn't a gift in addition to the royalties it's just a loan against future sales and it comes out of their royalties until it is all paid back. So for counting total income it doesn't matter if they get an advance or not. The only thing that matters is how many books they sell and what they got for them.
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I didn't believe that the Indie market share on Amazon was that high until the Author's Earning Reports started coming out but you can't argue with that aspect of the data. I can understand why the Industry market surveyors ignored the non ISBN sales, "if we can't count them they don't exist".
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After going back through their expressed methodology, I'm fairly skeptical. As far as I know, Amazon lists ranking, not actual number of sales. Am I wrong about that? Last edited by pwalker8; 01-29-2015 at 03:11 PM. |
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