The Authors Guild published the results of its 2018 Author Income Survey, an expanded polling of 5,067 people they call the largest survey of US professional writers ever conducted. (It included participation from 18 writers organizations and publishing platforms, including Nook Press, the IPBA and Lulu.) But a survey is just that — a measure of those particular 5,000 people that may or may not correspond to the possibly millions of traditionally- and self-published authors. (For one good look at the weakness of author surveys in general, see Jane Friedman’s piece from last June, Author Income Surveys Are Misleading and Flawed—And […]
