Most authors do not live off their earning from writing books. They have other sources of income - jobs, spouses, pensions.
For a typical $7.99 paperback, authors earn $0.64. Getting 50% of a $1.00 ebook wouldn't be much less - hopefully more because of more copies sold.
But expecting the author to get $0.5 from a $1 ebook is unrealistic, unless they are selling directly. It's more likely that they'd get $1 from a $5 ebook. ($1.00 discount to retail $4 to customer, $1.50 to retailer, $1.50 to publisher, $1.00 to author)
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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Most authors certainly can't live off the $1.00 ebook even if they get half the revenue.
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