Which is more profitable?

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/10/kindle-numbers-traditional-publishing.html

One author's experience with selling e-books through his publisher and through his self-published kindle sales. He shares numbers--both e-books sold by title, and his income from those sales.

I wonder if his experience is similar to others'  or different?  And how many authors can make that comparison at all.

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I haven't run into the last issue before (most people are conditioned to think that books (physical) and books (electronic) should be paid for). The first problem is the problem, though. And will likely remain a large problem until we develop different and trusted sets of gatekeepers.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

People are conditioned to believe that books published by an editor/publisher are worth paying for.

Some people assume that anything that looks like a professionally-published book is worth buying, but not all. A lot of people think of "vanity press" when they see self-publishing, and either assume the quality is substandard (i.e. the author only paid to publish their own book because their writing is cr**). Others are very suspicious that the quality is likely to be substandard.

Hopefully, that is changing.