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"Bestseller" does not equal income. I think there are a percentage of authors who believe that because they get on a bestseller list, they are going to be a mi
by jdrenterprises 14y ago
"Bestseller" does not equal income. I think there are a percentage of authors who believe that because they get on a bestseller list, they are going to be a millionaire.
The article stated 4000 copies sold, and $12000 in income. Math is math, no matter how you look at it. $3 a copy in income isn't all that bad at all.
The author's book was priced at $8.95 according to the article (Kindle version). Perhaps the author should consider price adjustments to see if the market will respond with more sales?
And this all assumes the author did a nice job with their marketing efforts in the first place... because "bestseller" also doesn't mean book sales on autopilot.
- manojlds 14y agoThe author says others, like his wife's family, believe that authors on best sellers lists make millions.
- jdrenterprises 14y agoYes, but the article title makes it sound like the author got screwed even though he made the bestseller list. $12000 isn't nothing, and Amazon has nothing to do with the results an author gets from their book in terms of units sold, except for providing search results. Just seems like one of those attempts to get eyeballs to an article to me.
- tomku 14y agoI get the impression that most or all of his sales were due to the "controversy" surrounding the C&D letter from Jack Daniels. He got a bunch of short-term publicity from that, and the book's popularity faded along with the media hype. Maybe he assumed that once it was on the bestseller list the sales would just keep rolling in, but that clearly wasn't the case. It seems misguided for him to blame Amazon for that, when it's possible that readers just didn't find the book appealing.