There's a severe shortage of streamlined pathways for self - published authors to get their books into libraries, with many authors resorting to simply donating copies of their books and hoping they get put on the shelves (as opposed to being sold in the 25 -
cent paperback sale).
Not exact matches
And 35
cents is what some traditional authors make on the
sale of a single mass market
paperback.
Sales of Konrath's $ 2.99 ebook will deliver him about $ 2.10 a copy (Konrath says $ 2.04; not sure where the other six
cents is going...), as much or more as he would make on a $ 14.95
paperback from a trade publisher, and significantly more than he'd make on a $ 9.99 ebook distributed under «Agency» terms and current major publisher royalty conventions.
February figures showed steeper declines in some print categories, with adult hardcover
sales falling 43 per
cent to $ 46.2 m and mass - market
paperbacks down 41.5 per
cent at $ 29.3 m.
For Porter, it's akin to the 25 -
cent paperbacks people can buy by the bag at library book
sales and used book stores.