From two of the charts
Daily $ revenue to authors from bestsellers is 2% to Indies and 37% to Big Five.
Daily Gross Amazon $ Sales of bestsellers is 3% for Indies, and 53% to Big five.
Considering that they say 50% of Indies use DRM that changess the 2% to 1% and the 3% to 1 1/2 % if you are using this data to establish harm caused by DRM.
And by saying
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It bears putting a number here and stressing what we are seeing: Self-published authors are now earning nearly 40% of all ebook royalties on the Kindle store. The days of looking at self-publishing as a last option are long gone.
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they don't specify whether it is cash $ or number of royalty payments and I suspect it is the latter looking at the other graphs.
Since they say they are using mostly Indie data? I would like to know how many Indie books sold without DRM and the average royalty paid, and the same for Indie DRMed books.
The charts are very pretty but to me they do not seem to add up to what is being stated as fact.
Helen