When Amazon offered to cofund a "reparations" fund for authors, they pointed out that they are aware of exactly how authors are impacted.
Here's a hint:
http://authorearnings.com/the-effect...-negotiations/
Yup, more "toxic" data from the guys with "an agenda".
Quote:
Our data set on the 85,000 best-selling Kindle e-books includes 1,363 titles from Hachette. A comparison of our February and April data bears out what these authors are reporting: Hachette-published e-books are on average slipping in Amazon sales rank and falling off the charts much faster than works published by the other Big-5 publishers.
Hachette’s total estimated unit sales dropped from 47,000 in the February dataset (5.9% of the total pie) to 38,000 in the April dataset (4.4% of the total pie), despite the latter dataset capturing more books overall (85,000 vs 54,000).
Between February and April, Hachette’s Kindle e-book unit sales have fallen 20% – 25%, depending on whether we are looking at relative market share or at absolute numbers.
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That being ebook data, shipping times aren't at issue. Just Amazon reducing their *discretionary* discounts and promotion.