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Higher Price Bands Make More Money for Self-Published Authors

May 9, 2013
By Michael Cader

Smashwords has published some findings derived analyzing the recent 11 months of sales (thrugh March 31) for 120,000 ebooks distributed by the company. Those sales represent $12 million in net receipts for authors and publishers (after Smashwords’ and retailers’ commissions; if you like math, you’ll find that means Smashwords collected about $2.2 million in distribution […]

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Filed Under: eNews, Pricing, Self-publishing

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