er... i must have missed something here. she was paid 25,000 and you say she made about $3 a book. 80,000x3 is 240,000, not 25,000. 25,000 for 80,000 books equals 31.25 cents per book.
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Originally Posted by ficbot
2) She sold in the vicinity of 80,000 books and make about 25k. That's about $3 a book. Let's say she cuts out the publisher altogether and sells on Smashwords for $5 a book. She gets 85% of that, so that's $4.25. To make the same 25k, she'd have to sell only about 6000 books. If she sells just half of the 80,000, that's $170,000 which is way more money even if it is fewer copies. So an author who is smart at self-promotion and gets a good rep can do a lot better as an indie, it seems.
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