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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I notice that the science fiction Top 100 list doesn't actually have 100 books (not even 60, in fact), which begs the question: How does an author get his books checked out by this site, to see if they can possibly fill out a few of those empty spaces?
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It's a work in progress.
Overtime, I will have more than 100 books for each category.
Amazon CEO on his annual letter to shareholders:
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012...olders-letter/
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Kindle Direct Publishing has quickly taken on astonishing scale – more than a thousand KDP authors now each sell more than a thousand copies a month, some have already reached hundreds of thousands of sales, and two have already joined the Kindle Million Club. KDP is a big win for authors. Authors who use KDP get to keep their copyrights, keep their derivative rights, get to publish on their schedule – a typical delay in traditional publishing can be a year or more from the time the book is finished – and … saving the best for last … KDP authors can get paid royalties of 70%. The largest traditional publishers pay royalties of only 17.5% on ebooks (they pay 25% of 70% of the selling price which works out to be 17.5% of the selling price). The KDP royalty structure is completely transformative for authors. A typical selling price for a KDP book is a reader-friendly $2.99 – authors get approximately $2 of that! With the legacy royalty of 17.5%, the selling price would have to be $11.43 to yield the same $2 per unit royalty. I assure you that authors sell many, many more copies at $2.99 than they would at $11.43.
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It was at 108 authors.
It now has 125 authors who sold more than 50,000. I will add more in the coming days.