It's a nice way to control your retail pricing and make
more per book sale, because you buy your book at wholesale pricing and then sell direct to the consumer.
You will avoid the red tape of dealing with retailers and you will make much more
money per book sale than through either wholesale or retail distribution.
As an indie author she now makes twice as
much per book sale as when she was traditionally published, and her readers spend two dollars less when they buy her books.
Traditionally published authors tend to get a royalty of around 10 %
per book sale once their advance has been earned out.
For one thing, because you don't share your royalties with an agent or publisher, your
income per book sale is several times higher than if you traditionally published.
You may not earn as much
money per book sale, but you're far more likely to get more sales overall.
Use IngramSpark's Publisher Compensation Calculator to see what you'll earn
per book sale with your wholesale discount factored in.
Having a $ 3.50 gross profit margin per copy sold helps me hit an overall book profit much sooner than a gross profit margin
per book sale of 35 cents.
Authors are paid a royalty of
pennies per book sale and thus need to sell many many copies of their boks in order to make a living.
I think that it is unlikely because Amazon would be losing $ 3 - 4
per book sale which really would be hard to make up with the sale of Kindles.
You don't have to empty your wallet and best of all you set your own price and earn 80 %
per book sale when your book is bought on Lulu, which is fantastic.
You make more money,
per book sale, than through the traditional channels of wholesale or retail distribution.
Unless your contract with them is wildly different than my Orbit / Hachette contract (and I don't think it is) we get 25 % of net and that means net is coming from subscription or
a per book sale, we don't have any say in the matter... I think at least.