Recently one of my favourite authors self-published some of his ebooks for the US market at $2.99 each. The same titles were already being sold by publishers in other countries for $10 or more. One of the titles is actually selling at Amazon US in both versions, the
self-published one for $2.99 alongside the
publisher-pubished version for $8.89. It made me wonder which version the author would actually earn more money from.
This article
http://blog.smashwords.com/2013/05/n...s-authors.html dated May 2013 states that:
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An indie ebook author earns about $2.00 from the sale of a $2.99 book. That book, on average, will sell four times as many units as a book priced over $10.00. In order for a traditionally published author to earn $2.00 on an ebook sale, the book must be priced at $11.42 (if the publisher has agency terms, as Smashwords does) or $16.00 (if it's a wholesale publisher).
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From this it appears that the author and I would both be better off if I bought the $2.99 self-published version.