About that nonsensical GBP 7,000 ($8,450) median earnings for UK authors…
When I put pen to paper to write a book there is no guarantee I will earn a single penny from it....
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Tag: Author Earnings
Data Guy says 70% of the UK’s top ten ebook bestsellers are published by Amazon. Nothing new there. But can Bookstat’s numbers be relied upon?
When it comes to selling books we all acknowledge that in the key western markets Amazon rules the...
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Ebooks delivered the highest percentage of AAP publisher revenue in US adult fiction in 2018
It will have surprised few that, for the second year running, the StatShot Annual Report of the...
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New Zealand authors struggle to survive on earnings from their writing, mirroring UK authors’ plight. But is there such a thing as a fair wage for writers?
At end March a body called Copyright Licensing New Zealand published a study on author earnings in...
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Digital library downloads are hurting Amazon's bottom line. The Hot Sheet reviewed
The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter...
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Data Guy rewrites the historical Author Earnings US ebook statistics. 2016 US unit ebook sales of 487 million now 525 million. What are we to believe?
I had occasion to revisit Data Guy’s January 2018 Author Earnings Report this week. And I...
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Audio Publishers Association says 2017 US audiobook market worth $2.5 billion – more than double Data Guy’s BookStat valuation. Who are we to believe?
When the Audio Publishers Association issued its latest valuation of the US audiobook market last...
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Amazon expands UK imprint ambitions as A-Pub holds half the US top ten today. A-Pub has more titles than Bloomsbury, Kensington or HMH if BookStat numbers are correct
At noon today (GMT) five of the top ten slots in the Kindle charts were taken by Lake Union (2),...
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Global book market valued at $143bn
Publishing Perspectives reports today on a new global book market study project, BookMap, which...
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