Sentences with phrase «average author earning»

Which means if you keep this up year after year for 14 years — living on heaven knows what in the meanwhile, would have the current average author earning the poverty level.

So far, the site has sold 14,000 titles in some 8 months, with an average author earning $ 1,000 per month, says Annan, adding, «We're getting about 20 new authors a week.»

Publishers can not ignore authors who net 44 % of their sales, and authors can not continue on the earnings they recoup from these sales: an EU study found the average an author earned from lifetime sales of each book was # 6,000.

Novelist Joanne Harris commented: «It's good to see that finally we are becoming aware of just how little the average author earns.

I know what the average author earns, I see it and the average author does not earn very much.

Not exact matches

From a purely financial perspective, the authors write that the students are making wise choices, and that they are shifting toward fields whose graduates, on average, earn more.

Go look at Brenda Hiatt's «Show Me the Money» to see what the earn outs for the average «professional author» is.

This means that authors, on average, are actually earning less at $ 1.99 than they are at $ 0.99.

I earned an average of $ 1 per book, but self - publishing authors were earning between $ 4 to $ 10 per copy, depending on whether the books were sold through retailers or directly.

Following Sexton's presentation and a interview with author Hugh Howey and his agent Kristin Nelson about his decision to sign a print - only deal with Simon & Schuster after earning an average of $ 50,000 per month on his own, Laura Owen of GigaOm moderated a panel of agents to discuss this hybrid author status.

While Big Five print titles, for example, may sell more than the average indie author's work, a self - published author has to sell far fewer copies than a traditionally published author to earn the same amount of income.

Way back in 2000, the Society of Authors found that 75 % of members earned less than # 20,000, while in 2007 the Authors» Licence and Collecting Society cited average earnings for UK authors of about # 16,000, an average which hides the true picture of a profession which is becoming steadily more uAuthors found that 75 % of members earned less than # 20,000, while in 2007 the Authors» Licence and Collecting Society cited average earnings for UK authors of about # 16,000, an average which hides the true picture of a profession which is becoming steadily more uAuthors» Licence and Collecting Society cited average earnings for UK authors of about # 16,000, an average which hides the true picture of a profession which is becoming steadily more uauthors of about # 16,000, an average which hides the true picture of a profession which is becoming steadily more unequal.

For a mass - market paperback book with a minimum first printing of 25,000 copies, an average return rate of 50 %, an average $ 6.50 cover price, and an average 6 % royalty rate, an author would earn only $ 4,875 on the sales of that book — and 15 % ($ 731.25) of that sum would go directly to the author's agent, leaving the author with a gross (before taxes) profit of $ 4,143.75.

In fact, according to the results of the recent self publishing survey by Taleist.com, Authors who submitted to popular reviewers on Amazon received 25 % more reviews than average and earned 32 % more revenue for their latest release.

We don't hear much about the great bestsellers in educational publishing (although I can assure you than many earn both their publishers and their authors a great deal more than the average new novel).

Meanwhile in the United States the median household income in the US is $ 52k per year and the average indie author from the USA earns less than $ 100 over the lifetime of their book.

How much is the AVERAGE author on the Select platform earning?

It truly depends one what you mean by average — do you mean the total amount earned by the number of authors (the mean), or do you mean the amount that the average KDP author / publisher earns (the median)?

It truly depends one what you mean by average — do you mean the total amount earned by the number of authors (the mean), or do you mean the... Continue reading How Much Money Can a Self - Publisher Make?

The author of a 200 page book that was borrowed 100 times but only read halfway through on average would earn $ 1,000 ($ 10 million multiplied by 10,000 pages for this author divided by 100,000,000 total pages).

In fact on average, all «KDP Select» authors are earning an extra 26 %, according to Amazon.

They'd reported that those authors earned $ 70,000 from the lending library — which has to be a cumulative total, meaning on average an extra $ 7,000 per author.

That's a significant sum until you throw in the recent data that the average self - published eBook earns its author less than $ 500.

Amazon may choose to look at the cumulative royalties that the average KDP Select author is earning, rather than what the per - download royalty is.

She was earning fabulous «WOW» reviews from readers, yet she was only selling a few copies a day (even still, a few copies a day is way above average for most authors).

Most self - published authors are, on average, earning more money on fewer books:

Romance authors earned 170 % more than their peers, while authors in other genres fared much worse: science - fiction writers earned 38 % of the $ 10,000 average, fantasy writers 32 %, and literary fiction authors just 20 % of the $ 10,000 average.

More self - published authors are, on average, earning more money on fewer books [than are traditionally published authors].

If a handful of best - selling authors are receiving say 50, 60 or even 70 % or more of the net revenues from their books, that would majorly skew the figure for the percentage of all revenue paid to all authors, especially since the brand name bestselling authors must be earning a higher percentage of overall revenue at most publishing houses than say an average mid-list author.

Howey makes a good case that the «average» author earns more from a self published book than she would through one of the Big Five publishers, and, what's more, that this holds true for all sorts of outliers (the richest indie authors outperform the richest Big Five authors; less - prolific indies do better than less - prolific traditionals, etc).

The author of a 200 - page book which was borrowed 100 times but only read halfway through on average would earn $ 1,000 ($ 10 million multiplied by 10,000 pages for this author divided by 100,000,000 total pages).

Executive Summary The authors examine the difference between mutual funds» buy - and - hold, or time - weighted, returns and the average dollar - weighted returns, or IRRs, that are earned by end investors over the January 1991 — June 2013 period.

Authored by Edward (Eddie) O'Neal, assistant professor, Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University and Fund Democracy President Mercer Bullard, the Zero Alpha Group / Fund Democracy study finds: «On a $ 10,000 investment earning an annual return of 10 percent over 20 years, the average investor in no - load, no 12b - 1 fee index funds would pay approximately $ 2,582 in operating expenses.