Here is an Indy musician talking about their revenue share from various distributors. I wonder if this gives us any insight as to what Amazon will offer Indy authors?
Quote:
UK band Uniform Motion ...
With Spotify, we'll get $0.0041/play.
If you listen to the album all the way through, we'll get $0.04.
Amazon MP3: ... We will get $6.86 EUR of that. That's a 70-30 split.
iTunes: we will keep 6.28 EUR/album.
If you buy a CD, ... there's $5.99 left for us.
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I included the other numbers to show that they get prices for normal sales even better than many book authors will see, but on an all-you-can-eat plan they get four cents per album. Of course, it is more likely that music listeners will play the same album multiple times. But to get the six euro equivalent, the entire album would need to be played 150 times on Spotify by the same person.
http://gizmodo.com/5840580/what-a-ba...treaming-sales