Be aware that these statistics are only for Amazon.com, not for sales that occur on Lulu.com, which most authors would prefer due to
higher author revenue (241 % in my book's case).
Not exact matches
[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.
Authors» income is actually decreasing, while publishers continue to post
high revenues.
That said,
authors still have a choice on whether they want to opt into the Kindle Unlimited / KDP Select system, and forgo the
higher visibility for a potentially larger cut of
revenue through normal sales.
This program allowed
authors to forgo book advances to get a
higher revenue earned on their books.
Kickstarter fees are much lower than Amazon or other distribution channels, so books sold through Kickstarter projects generate
higher net
revenues to the
author.
Frequently
authors do this with a number of their titles all at once and garner tremendous
revenue until another
author pays a
higher fee to surpass them or a really big bestseller comes out.
For big best - selling
authors — and even occasionally first - time writers whose publishers have taken a risk — the
author's advance may be so large that the
author effectively gets a
higher slice of the gross
revenue.
I know of one Big Five house that calculates that they pay more than 40 % of their
revenue to
authors and another which says that number is in the
high 30s.
Rules like this hinder
authors because they prevent sales on Lulu at a lower cost, with
higher revenue.
The seamless technology allows the text itself to generate
higher revenues for emerging
authors as well as expose reader to the endless possibility through reading.
They figure out in concert with the publisher how many copies they think the book should sell (big
authors with long track records are somewhat more predictable than the rest of the universe, which is one more reason their books are so desirable to the publishers) and get an advance that is equal to a startlingly
high percentage of the
revenue that sales level would produce.
Well, we also offer 80 %
revenue returns to our
authors, the
highest percent in the industry!
«Indie
authors with one or more bestseller - listed titles are, on average, receiving a significantly
higher increment of additional
revenue — 30 percent more — from their other, non-bestseller-listed titles than Big Five
authors who have listed best sellers, for whom their other titles add only 21 percent to their bottom line.
B&N
revenue share for self - published
authors (source) Priced
higher than $ 9.99: 40 % retail Priced between $ 2.99 - $ 9.99: 65 % retail Priced below $ 2.99: 40 % retail
An
author will be more satisfied with
higher total
revenue from lower unit
revenue.
``... in this article there is no mention to the fact that the BIG5 have a wider [print] distribution network than an Indy
author, so an
author published by the BIG5 may be actually getting a much
higher revenue at the end of the day.»
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.
A range of independent
authors have found that lower prices result in
higher total
revenue, because readers buy more books.
On the opposite end, 15
authors or 0.80 percent, reported making between $ 30,001 and $ 40,000 in an average month with no new releases, with 15 others reporting
revenue in the
higher ranges, and 1 reporting average monthly
revenue in excess of $ 500,000.
While full - length novels may prove to be more popular among
authors, publishing short stories can generate
higher revenue given the shorter word count and less time to devote your time to your writing.
Author earnings from KU titles (including both KU borrows and regular sales) show indie KU titles seem to benefit from
higher visibility through KU downloads and
higher revenue share earned on regular sales of those titles.
However, once
authors are receiving less than half of the
revenue from their books in exchange for mere distribution, it's hard to see how such a platform can claim either an economic edge or moral
high ground.
So, Indie / Self Pubishers have a
higher percentage of books in the top 5,000 titles, but they receive a smaller overall percentage of
author revenue?
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