One of the key problems that has arisen under US lending and subscription models is that publishers who are willing to take the risk on an experimental lending model have rightly been cautious about participating, often resorting to testing the waters with their backlist or
a few midlist titles.
Not exact matches
What's worse is that we have to take into account that bestselling books sell about 500-1000 times more than
midlist titles, which means the potential revenue for the average book will be a
few cents.
In terms of authors» yearly earnings in different brackets ranging from $ 10,000 to $ 1M, despite releasing
fewer titles to the market, indie authors significantly make money even among
midlist group who earns $ 10K p.a..