Sentences with phrase «over author earnings»

Philip Pullman has joined in the debate over author earnings, saying writers could soon be «an endangered species» if publishers fail to deliver on fairer terms.

Philip Pullman has joined in the debate over author earnings, saying they could soon be extinct if publishers fail to deliver on fairer terms...

Not exact matches

Peter Bernstein, author of the fascinating book on risk Against the Gods has noted that historically, low dividend payouts have a striking correlation with low earnings growth over the following decade.

The vast earnings (over # 300,000 in 14 months) have prompted talk in Westminster that Dorries could be the most successful MP author since Jeffrey Archer.

In response to the criticism that teacher impacts on student test scores are inconsistent over time, the authors show that «although VA measures fluctuate across years, they are sufficiently stable» that selecting teachers even based on a few years of data would have substantial impacts on student outcomes, such as earnings.

Read the results of the survey and see her graphs over at An Analysis of the Author Earnings Survey Data.

On this week's show, we chatted with fantasy author Amelia Smith about a bunch of data that she crunched based on the Author Earnings Survey over at Hugh Howey's Author Earnings Report weauthor Amelia Smith about a bunch of data that she crunched based on the Author Earnings Survey over at Hugh Howey's Author Earnings Report weAuthor Earnings Survey over at Hugh Howey's Author Earnings Report weAuthor Earnings Report website.

Over at Author Earnings, Hugh Howey and Data Guy released the July sampling and talked about it.

Every time they release a new Author Earnings report filled with charts and graphs and actual information culled over countless hours at the computer, I remember the scene from the film Day After Tomorrow when Jake Gyllenhaal's character pleads with the people to not go out into the storm, begging them to save themselves and warning them they will die if they go out there.

Last year, self - published e-books accounted for over 31 % of Amazon's Kindle Store sales, whereas Big Five traditional publishers accounted for only 16 % of sales according to an recent Author Earnings report.

I'm talking about Indie over there today, so you might want to take the time to look not only at my highlights, but the deeper data of the Author Earnings Report.

«According to a 2017 Author Earnings report, over 70 % of all genre fiction consumer purchases — the «overwhelming majority» — are now in ebook format.

In a recent Author Earnings report in from 2016 to early 2017 Amazon sold over 487,298,000 Kindle books.

In one of our charts from the last report, we took a combined look at author earnings by combining our February data with our April data to gauge sales churn over time.

While most people believe that the traditional route is more lucrative if you can create a deal, Author Earnings released an interesting report based on over 5,600 authors who make $ 10,000 or more a year through the Kindle best seller list (http://authorearnings.com/report/individual-author-earnings-tracked-across-7-quarters-feb-2014-sept-2015/).

Their May 2015 Author Earnings Report (click the title to get reading) is the sixth quarterly look at Amazon's ebook sales, with data taken on over 200,000 bestselling ebooks.

You could even argue that he's played the biggest part in the rise of indie authors — by refusing book deals from Publishers, by hitting great sales ranks, by revealing his earnings (over $ 500K in 2011), and by sharing what worked for him.

You can find more data on average ebook prices for Amazon, indie, and self - pub ebooks over on the Author Earnings website.

Almost every commentator taking up this debate presses home that essential, inescapable problem, including Michael Cader in the first of two Ether - length posts («It's a quiet «news» day») at Publishers Lunch, The Discussion Over «Author Earnings» (Part 1).

As with previous reports, the data takes a hard look at projected sales and author earnings by pulling data for over 120,000 ebooks off Amazon's product pages.

There has been a lot of talk over the last week or so about the latest Author Earnings report.

These crappy sales figures are confirmed by Data Guy, the non de plume of the computer guy who assists Hugh Howey over at Author Earnings.

At the same time, ebook sales in the US topped over 487 million a year, according to Author Earnings.

Let's now turn to longer trends by graphing our last six Author Earnings reports over time.

As I mentioned, according to the raw data, daily author earnings from romance dropped from over $ 400K to under $ 50K from last July to the February 2015 report.

As with our previous reports, we are looking at projected sales and author earnings by pulling data for over 120,000 ebooks off Amazon's product pages.

This report begins by criticising inaccurate statistics and to convince those who need to be persuaded (rather than those who want to be persuaded) the inaccuracies in the Author Earnings dataset need to be acknowledged and hopefully over time resolved.

To qualify for payment, accrued earnings must be over USD $ 75.00 for U.S. authors who want paper checks, and $ 0.01 for all authors who want electronic payment via PayPal.

by Molly Greene, @mollygreene I recently posted my disappointing 2015 author earnings, and declared that I would pursue an enhanced marketing plan (meaning not solely dependent on BookBub and KDP Select) over the rest of 2016.

A website called Author Earnings, the brainchild of Hugh Howey and his partner, known simply as Data Guy, has been gathering sales data for well over a year now.

He runs through the findings of his Author Earnings report — a data - gathering exercise which suggests self - published authors are matching the big - five in ebook sales and making more money in the process — and answers critics who have cast doubt over his sweeping conclusions.

Over five consecutive Author Earnings» data snapshots over a period of 12 months, a clear trend has shown the continued growth of indie market share compared with traditionally published eboOver five consecutive Author Earnings» data snapshots over a period of 12 months, a clear trend has shown the continued growth of indie market share compared with traditionally published eboover a period of 12 months, a clear trend has shown the continued growth of indie market share compared with traditionally published ebooks.

AE decided to make a longitudinal study of author earnings tracking the earnings of individual authors over the seven quarters from February 2014 to September 2015

The figures also show that in the middle of last year, self - publishers as a whole took over the leading share (40 %) of all ebook earnings generated on Amazon.com while Big Five Authors fell back to second place with 35 %.

After the big hoopla over Wool series author, Hugh Howey's disclosure of earnings, are you studying everything that Hugh is doing?

Howey's Data Guy also analysed the link between daily author earnings and yearly author earnings, taking the top 1,000 earning authors for each publishing type and ranking them by combined earnings from both of the data sets to look at earnings» fall - off over the previous quarter for which we have data.

In a 2010 paper called «The other side of value: Good growth and the gross profitability premium,» author Robert Novy - Marks discusses his preference for «gross profitability» over other measures of performance like earnings, or free cash flow.

The authors say middle - income families have seen their earnings rise by an average of only 1.7 per cent a year over the 15 years ending 2007.