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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Updates were promised, updates are being posted:
This one is a look at all print (including Amazon) vs Amazon-only digital, bith trad and indie published. Raw data supplied.
http://authorearnings.com/what-write...-on-the-table/
One thing to consider is that these order of magnitude studies leave out the intangibles.
The feeling of validation for those that value the old school approach, the fire and forget simplicity of selling copyright control, the upfront lump sum payment for those that need it versus the control aspects and the extra time and effort spent contracting and managing freelancers on the other.
Different authors are making different choices for themselves. What Howey is doing is collecting and presenting data so the authors can make choices based on what the market really looks like. Some familiar establishment claims are being validated (or, more precisely, clarified) while others are proving to be...dated.
We'll have to see if this effort gets other ebook vendors to open up even slightly so we can get full market data. |
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This is where I disagree. I don't think this is an accurate picture of the market. I think it's a reasonably good picture of success, but not of the market as a whole.
In order to see what the market really looks like we need to know how many players there are. The total number of successful authors is irrelevant without knowing the size of the field. Give me numbers, even approximations, on how many authors are in each category to start with, and then we can actually talk.
Right now all these numbers really say is that successful self-published authors are successful. We already knew that.