Might as well offer folks as many different options as possible, especially since this one translates to
higher author revenues.
I would love to hear more about how Amazon's play to increase
author revenue while cutting out publishers is working out.
Indie authors are earning nearly half the total
author revenue from [leading] genre fiction sales on Amazon.
Because self - published authors keep 70 % of their total purchase price on Amazon compared to the 25 % that most traditionally published authors get from their publishers, indie authors are earning almost half the daily
author revenue in the Mystery / Thriller, Science Fiction / Fantasy, and Romance genres.
Daily
Author Revenue Per Author Indie Published $ 17.43 From Small or Medium Publisher $ 9.68 From Uncategorized Single - Author Publisher $ 16.67 Penguin Random House $ 44.48 Hachette $ 46.07 Harper Collins $ 27.03 Macmillan $ 24.25 Simon & Schuster $ 55.57
This chart, as well as the churn chart, got us wondering how much of traditionally -
published author revenue was coming from new releases by long - tenured authors, and how much of it was coming from debut authors.
The survey looked
at author revenue by publication date to assess the phenomenon of diminished sales outside of the first month of publication, as ebooks fall off the «hot new» lists.
With respect to these points: Kindle Unlimited will continue to become a larger part of KDP
Select author revenues.
So, Indie / Self Pubishers have a higher percentage of books in the top 5,000 titles, but they receive a smaller overall percentage
of author revenue?
Over the past few weeks we've discussed improving
your author revenue with crowdfunding, audiobooks and tapping into additional writing / speaking markets while building your reading audience.
We've provided different payment options to make it as convenient and easy as possible to claim
your author revenue.
In the last two weeks we've discussed improving
your author revenue - producing with audiobooks and crowdfunding.
While
author revenue is our primary focus, it's also worth looking at how Barnes & Noble's own share of e-book income is distributed.
However, publisher revenue is far less meaningful to authors than
author revenue.