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Originally Posted by igorsk
Hm, do you have a source for this info?
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Jim Baen used to post now and then at Baen's Bar giving semi-specific information about how Webscriptions was doing. I either saw the information there, or in one of Eric Flint's missives on Copyright, DRM, and the like.
A recent guestimate posted by one of Baen's authors (I'm brain-stalling on which one) said that royalties on Webscriptions purchases work out roughly as eArc pays a royalty similar to a hardcover sale; single-book purchase pays similar to large-format paperback; monthly bundle sale similar to paperback purchase. Except that there's a fudge factor in splitting the money from bundle sales between the various authors, so that the guy with the best-seller gets more than the guy whose book went noplace.
If you want better information, go ask in person at baen's bar -- bar.baen.com.
Xenophon