My sense is that authors mostly make less money than they did 25 years ago, but only because there's so many more of them. And authors mostly didn't make much m

My sense is that authors mostly make less money than they did 25 years ago, but only because there's so many more of them. And authors mostly didn't make much money to begin with. As I was writing my first comment I kept thinking about how Walden and Borders are gone, but Half-Price Books seems to be doing well. I think a used book store is probably net better for an area than a Borders ETA: one relevant market Amazon definitely created is ebook romance/erotica. Somehow the second page of results of any Amazon search contains $3 romance ebooks, whatever you were searching for. Those authors have never had it so good.