Re: Author Earnings

**M* P* D* <m*@dargan.com>**

Doug, I read the paper with great interest. 

Last year I purchased Publishing Catapult, a kindle packager and created titles for future work. 

This analysis really lit a fire under my "soon to be" self-publishing empire. I had no idea of the profit my publisher makes on the 2 e-books already available that they cloned off my print editions. They do quite well in numbers!

Are there metrics for PLMs that have image heavy landscape design books?  They are not exactly the models he quotes in the articles.

Congratulations on your sales by the way! You are always an inspiration.

Cheers,

Mary Palmer Dargan, asla
Author, licensed landscape architect, lecturer
404-354-1715

> On Feb 18, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Helen Yoest <helen@gardeningwithconfidence.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for sharing, Doug.
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> Helen
>> On Feb 18, 2014, at 6:49 AM, Doug Green <gardeningemail@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I don't know if any of you read the "writing" press.  But if you're at all
>> interested in writing a book or being published, this latest little
>> contretemps in the book world is a great starting point for deciding about
>> whether to take a legacy publishing deal or do it yourself.
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>> Start by going to http://authorearnings.com/ sign up to enter (free) and
>> then read/analyze that data.  It's a one day scan of the top 7000 Amazon
>> ebook sales and it shows how self-publishing authors are doing much, much
>> better than anyone knew or expected. There's another scan coming out
>> shortly that reaches down to the 50,000 BookRank level.
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>> I met Hugh Howey last weekend at the Savannah Book Festival and we chatted
>> for a few minutes before his talk. When I told him about my publishing
>> numbers, he said I was one of a thousand people he had chatted with with
>> exactly the same the same story. We were making a decent living away from
>> the traditional routes.
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>> If this subject interests you, google "fisking hugh howey" and you'll pull
>> articles from Konrath, Shatzkin, Howey etc
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>> But if you're not interested in self-publishing and making money writing
>> books, let it slide by.
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>> And for the record - I'm with the self-publishers on this one (as if you
>> didn't know) :-)
>> 
>> Doug
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>> -- 
>> 
>> Doug Green
>> Head Weeder, Head Wordsmith
>> http://www.douggreensgarden.com/about.html <http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com>
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