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

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

ISBNs are registered to a publisher, not a writer. They can't be transferred. (In the case of Lulu or Createspace, THEY are the listed publisher, even though technically it's self-published.)

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Eww. Sounds like a bunch of wasteful paperwork. Is this system designed to do anything useful, or just create an in-group that has privileges others just don't get?