http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/for...investors.html
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fiscal 2016 first quarter ended August 1, 2015
NOOK
The NOOK segment (including digital content, devices and accessories) had revenues of $54 million for the quarter, decreasing 22.4% from a year ago. For the quarter, digital content sales declined 28.0% to $37 million and device and accessories sales declined 6.2% to $17 million.
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digital content sales / total revenue = $37 mil / $54 mil = 68%
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fiscal 2016 second quarter ended October 31, 2015
NOOK
NOOK sales of $43.5 million decreased 31.9% due primarily to lower content sales. NOOK EBITDA losses of $21.3 million declined $15.1 million versus the prior year as the company continues to reduce expenses.
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$43.5 million x 68% content sales ratio = $29.58 million content sales
$29.58 mil content sales x 65% royalties payout rate = $19.23 million, divide by 3 months =
$6.4 million payout each month
Kindle Unlimited payout right now is at about
$27 million a month to all publishers.
Source: In the month of October, the payout was $12.4 million to self-publishers + $1.164 million in All-Star bonuses to top self-publishers who enrolled. So about $13.564 million to self-publisher.
Self-publishers are only half of the total payout. Small/medium publishers as well as Amazon Publishing is the other half. So total payout is about $27 million a month.
Refer to this Kindle Unlimited chart:
http://authorearnings.com/wp-content...8.48.37-PM.png
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Self-publishers 47%
Amazon Published 26%
Small/medium publisher 19%
Uncategorized Single-Author Publisher 8%
Big Five Publishers 0%
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Small medium publishers are paid full royalties for Kindle Unlimited according to the CEO of Kensington
http://www.idealog.com/blog/what-oys...subscriptions/
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GalleryP, the payment pool that you are mentioning is only for self-published writers and not books from traditional publishers. Traditional publishers were paid full royalties from the subscription services otherwise they wouldn't agree to make their books available.
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What does this all mean?
It means that Kindle Unlimited might very well be #2 in ebook royalties payout because I don't think Apple ebookstore is 4 times bigger than Nook
#1 is Kindle
#2 is Kindle Unlimited ($27 million a month right now)
#3 is probably Apple
#4 is Nook ($6.4 million a month right now)