State of retail publishing 2017

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Originally Posted by fjtorres

Author Earnings offers a free public, global view of the data.

Datastat sells full, real time, detailed data to "select" customers.
Where "select" = Publishing company with over $10M in annual revenues.

It most definitely offers title by title, author by author data and the tradpub establishment paying for it has no doubt about its accuracy. Neither do the dozens (hundreds?) of authors, indie and tradpub, who are upset at being both exposed by that data and being locked out of seeing it.

All the evidence, from Shatzkin citing it as gospel to the money it is generating to the concern from authors says the data is real enough. and so is the abstracted global view the public sees.

Deniers notwithstanding.

https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/new-...rnings-report/

It's pretty much a given these days that when someone starts calling others deniers, then they have moved from facts to emotions. Lots of people pay for reports that turn out to be not terribly accurate. To cite something that is very public, all those political polls that turned out to be way off were paid for.

Is there a point to your link? If you are claiming that some author says that the numbers for him are correct, I sure don't see it.