Revenue has also increased steadily, due in part to ever - growing ebook sales from small presses and self - publishers, effectively discrediting Authors United's claim that there isn't enough money to go around to
support midlist authors.
Amazon has used its monopsony power, and its ability to threaten punishment, to extract an ever greater share of the total price of a book from publishers, which has resulted in less revenue to
support midlist authors and certain kinds of books, effectively silencing many voices.
Not exact matches
And incidentally, these publishing routes tend to have a keen interest in the
midlist authors, niche genres, and minority voices traditional publishing is struggling to
support.
This feels like just another way of penalizing
midlist authors who already suffer from a lack of
support from their publishers.