Part 3 looked at the whole industry and laid important groundwork for roughing out a new measure: how much money do authors earn? The Author Earnings project has made valuable strides in making this a central issue. Up until AE, no one had even tried to tabulate what authors make in the aggregate, and their consistent perspective has been to focus on how much money authors — and self-published authors in particular — might be making, regardless of how they are making it (e.g. subscription reads, borrows and exclusive payoffs alongside royalties, etc.) It’s clear from AE’s work, no matter […]