Approximately 11 %
authors surveyed fell into the 100K bucket, so it's a pretty exclusive club but also one that is within reach.
Not exact matches
Filed Under: Indie Writing, Literary Fiction, LitFic
Survey Author Interviews Tagged With: Ian Fleming, John Le Carre, The
Fall and Rise of Peter Stoller, Upmarket espionage
Earlier this week, the
Authors» Licensing & Collecting Society released a
survey of almost 2,500 writers which found that the median income of a professional
author last year was # 11,000, down 29 % since 2005 — a period in which median earnings for UK employees have
fallen by 8 %.
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.
Howey's
survey estimates that KU borrows alone are generating 14 % of all daily
author earnings on Amazon, but also points out that
authors are giving up income from other outlets, which must be taken into account and could mean a
fall in earning potential.
In 2011, Watts (along with several other
authors) published the results of the
survey in the article
Fall et al., 2011 (Abstract; Google Scholar access).
The
author accuses Stantec of choosing to do a
survey only of spring migration for the birds while birds are actually at greater risk in the
fall because they are moving more slowly (there is not the push to build a nest and raise this year's offspring), and because there are young birds making the trip for the first time.