Indie authors are earning nearly half the total
author revenue from [leading] genre fiction sales on Amazon.
Indie authors are earning nearly half the total
author revenue from genre fiction sales on Amazon.
Not exact matches
Dalhousie University economist Marina Adshade,
author of an upcoming book based on her blog, Dollars and Sex, warns not to expect a windfall of tax
revenue from a regulated sex industry.
The study's
authors say they used the same methods researchers developed in a 2009 report titled «State and Local Government Sales Tax
Revenue Losses
from Electronic Commerce,» compiled by business professors at the University of Tennessee.
He is the
author of The Recession - Proof Business: Lessons
from the Greatest Recession Success Stories of All Time, Extreme
Revenue Growth: Startup Secrets to Growing Your Sales
from $ 1 Million to $ 25 Million in Any Industry, and Bookmercial Marketing: Why Books Replace Brochures in the Credibility Age.
The
authors observed: «A major finding of [the 1994 study] was that school food authorities... subsidize the cost of nonreimbursable meals with overall excess
revenue generated
from all reimbursable meals.
Authored a local law in early 2015 to dedicate
revenues from the Erie County Clerk's Auto Bureau to the Erie County Road Repair Reserve Fund.
Clea Kolster, lead
author and PhD student with the Grantham Institute at Imperial, said: «
Revenue from oil does make the deployment of CCS far more attractive in the near term by providing the majority of capital in early years before carbon dioxide tax incentives have increased sufficiently to overtake oil r
Revenue from oil does make the deployment of CCS far more attractive in the near term by providing the majority of capital in early years before carbon dioxide tax incentives have increased sufficiently to overtake oil
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Based on internationally successful tabletop miniature wargame Warhammer 40,000
from Games Workshop (~ $ 200 million
revenue 2010), the screenplay for Ultramarines has been written by one of their best - selling Games Workshop Black Library
authors Dan Abnett, who also writes for 2000AD, Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
[2] Focusing on public, non-selective institutions between 1990 and 2013, the
authors use institution - level data on enrollments, degree completions, tuition prices, total
revenues, and expenditures
from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), and augment this with data on how much state legislatures appropriate for higher education each year.
Last year, GCI drew attention to the approximately $ 70 million to $ 80 million annual loss in tax
revenue resulting from dramatic reductions in DOR staff as discussed in the policy paper Enhanced Revenue Enforcement Creates Fairness, Raises Millions in Revenue, authored by former Arizona DoR Director Elliott Hibbs for the Grand Canyon Ins
revenue resulting
from dramatic reductions in DOR staff as discussed in the policy paper Enhanced
Revenue Enforcement Creates Fairness, Raises Millions in Revenue, authored by former Arizona DoR Director Elliott Hibbs for the Grand Canyon Ins
Revenue Enforcement Creates Fairness, Raises Millions in
Revenue, authored by former Arizona DoR Director Elliott Hibbs for the Grand Canyon Ins
Revenue,
authored by former Arizona DoR Director Elliott Hibbs for the Grand Canyon Institute.
They receive 100 % of their
revenue from authors.
I know why a lot of indie
authors are scared to go with KDP Select, but the added
revenue more than offsets what you'll lose pulling
from the other markets.
SEATTLE, Jan 20, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced details of a new program that will enable
authors and publishers who use the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to earn a larger share of
revenue from each Kindle book they sell.
* Paying
authors 50 % of net instead of 25 % would shift a third of that 30 % — or 10 % of their overall
revenue —
from their bottom line to their
authors» bottom lines.
Its business is split broadly evenly across three key areas: publishing, marketing and distribution services, with
revenues generated primarily
from services to
authors.
The reason why the publishing industry is seeing less
revenue generated
from e-books is because of the spam indie
authors are producing.
If your primarily source of
revenue derives
from the written word, you are a professional
author.
With the announcement that all KDP Select titles would be included in the all - you - can - eat service,
authors were initially excited about the prospect of a new
revenue channel
from the exclusive program; it didn't take long, though, before some of the top names in self - publishing noticed a significant drop in their KDP - based income.
Here in Quebec, the average
revenue an
author gets
from his writing is under 5K a year.
Because only a small percentage of
authors earn a living
from their books, most need to develop additional
revenue streams.
One notoriously dodgy practice is to offer the
author a relatively low price for complete production services, but then to retain most of the
revenue from sales, and even the rights.
Early sales data indicates that inclusion in the Kindle Owners» Lending Library not only generates additional
revenue from loans for
authors, but actually increases customer purchases of
authors» work as well.
Other professional writers and bloggers have suffered
from SEO changes that hurt their websites or social media shifts, such as changes to Facebook's
author pages, that sent their click - throughs and ad
revenue diving.
This way the
author has creative input retains all of the rights to their writing and earns all of the
revenues from sales.
The startup is nearing 3 million members, drives more than 1 million e-book sales every month and generates
revenue in the «seven figures»
from commissions on sales and fees paid by publishers and
authors to be included in the newsletter.
Why would they give up all their ebook
revenue during negotiations when people might be buying the Hachette books
from other online retailers now and the
authors are getting their royalties
from those sales?
Business - savvy
authors have learned that by taking advantage of Lulu's weekly discounts — on top of their
author discount — they can earn more
revenue per book by selling to readers during events or directly
from their website.
And this reputable publisher has now flipped its
revenue model to actually generate income
from the
authors it grants these deals to!
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In June 2012, Penguin acquired
Author Solutions
from Bertram Capital for $ 116 million, and according to a company statement reported at that time,
Author Solutions generated $ 100 million in
revenue in 2011 and has grown at about 12 percent per year for the past three years.
Amazon has used its monopsony power, and its ability to threaten punishment, to extract an ever greater share of the total price of a book
from publishers, which has resulted in less
revenue to support midlist
authors and certain kinds of books, effectively silencing many voices.
Publishers also face pressure
from their
authors, who are beginning to think they deserve a bigger piece of e-book
revenue.
Revenue has also increased steadily, due in part to ever - growing ebook sales
from small presses and self - publishers, effectively discrediting
Authors United's claim that there isn't enough money to go around to support midlist a
Authors United's claim that there isn't enough money to go around to support midlist
authorsauthors.
It will provide additional
revenue streams to
authors beyond what they are able to get just
from the traditional route.
Graphicly offers
authors and publisher the ability to select the type of distribution they need, as well as the
revenue model that best suits them —
from a basic free offering to a flat rate per conversion, with a number of options in between.
One should note that the
author in the audience was not complaining about the
revenue she received
from subscription services, but about overall digital sales.
These
authors do well because they do not rely on a singular source of
revenue, but glean it
from Apple, Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Smashwords, Scribd and Oyster.
Unlimited is only being launched in the US right now and this results in a limited audience to offset an
author's ability to earn
revenue from international sales.
Solomon was slightly more forgiving as she applauded Howey's efforts to arm
authors with solid data and knowledge, but even she went on to state that publishers earn a significant portion of their
revenue from print sales, and
Author Earnings only takes into account ebook sales.
Of course, much of the data is talking about ebooks over print sales, but as Walsh's assessment
from AuthorEarnings shows, print book
revenue for the actual
author is nothing compared to their digital income.
Have you vetted these sites to ensure that none of them are pirating the books, thus stealing
revenue from the
authors and publishers?
In these cases, they may ask the
author to pay a fee to host the event or share
revenues from sales at the book signing.
Most of the Australian
authors I work with get most of their
revenues from Amazon.com.
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.
Once I picked myself up
from the shock of that announcement I politely messaged back that the Nook is the second most popular reader and the
author is missing out on
revenue by not being available there.
Even printed
authors suffered
from this monster disparity of
revenue, and all writing magazines in the 80s and 90s did not hesitate to tell it like it was, offering alternate avenues to make money
from writing, via newspapers, small local magazines, or the like.
Indie
Authors are starting to see more
revenue from the United Kingdom.
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
The problem seems to be that, whilst Publishers should have an incentive to maximise their
revenues from Amazon, and thus maximise royalties to
authors, they appear to be screwing both themselves, and their
authors, over by settings prices at levels that ensure that they both get less money out of Amazon than they might otherwise do.