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AuthorEarnings.com Roundup

It’s been the week of Hugh Howey and AuthorEarnings.com, and there’s been an immense amount of coverage. Here are the main posts about the bombshell, both for and against.

BusinessWeek: Is Self-Publishing a Better Road to Wealth for Writers?

Howey’s data provide only one snapshot of a single market on a single day. Amazon may dominate the e-book world, but its sales data don’t cover the entire industry. Revenue streams that come to authors with publishing deals, such as advances, aren’t accounted for. The data are also focused on a particular corner of the market that may not move

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Henry Baum2014-02-15T13:58:32+02:00February 15th, 2014|Categories: Features|Tags: Hugh Howey, JA Konrath|

AuthorEarnings.com: Self-Publishing Has Its Advocate

I can’t really do justice to the massive posts by JA Konrath and Porter Anderson, but this is a pretty momentous development. AuthorEarnings.com is a brand new site, which culls sales info from self-publishers. Authors can contribute to the project via a simple but useful survey. This is the site’s mission statement.

Our purpose is to gather and share information so that writers can make informed decisions. Our secondary mission is to call for change within the publishing community for better pay and fairer terms in all contracts. This is a website by authors and for authors.

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Henry Baum2014-02-12T13:27:31+02:00February 12th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: Amanda Hocking, Hugh Howey, JA Konrath|

So! You Want To Be A Writer?

This blog is inspired by Alan Rinzler, Zoe Winters, David Kazzie, JA Konrath, and Dean Wesley Smith. Because everything I ever learned about being a writer – a person who makes money writing – I learned from these individuals. So, if in the next five minutes you read something that you don’t believe, they are the ones to blame.

Do you know how to write? I’m not kidding. One day I was reading the autobiography of a bus stop mate. He had self-published the saga of his journey from gang member to solid citizen. The thesis of his book was […]

Emily Hill2011-08-22T12:32:16+02:00August 22nd, 2011|Categories: Features, Member Blog|Tags: JA Konrath, Zoe Winters|