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Writers' Cafe / Re: Latest Author Earnings Report has been posted
« on: January 24, 2018, 06:21:10 am »I may be missing something, but to me the most useful piece of data was the $9.99 price leading the pack. I assume, although perhaps wrongly, that those are trad pub books. To me it sends a complicated message: It could be worth pursuing a trad pub contract just to get more high-dollar market penetration and then use hybrid status to sell self-published books at trad pub ebook prices and pocket the considerable profit. Rather a labyrinthine strategy, and one would give up a lot to be a HarperCollins book, for instance, but played right, it could break a romance author out of the $2.99 pit too many of us are in. In dollars, we're trailing genres that in units we completely rule.
I do exactly that. My self-published titles sell for $9.99 (my traditionally published titles are $9.99 - $14.99). My sales for the self-published stuff is pretty much in line with the traditntal work so that allows me to really clean up on the self-published work. Also I'm doing "print-only" traditional contracts now so I can keep audio (which is huge for me) and ebook. We'll see how that works out.