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]

You also have to register as a publisher before you can purchase blocks of ISBNs. I have a block of 100. I can't remember exactly what I paid for publisher registration, but I think it was another $250. You only have to do that once, but it's still a chunk of change.

(And don't get me started on UPCs...)

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I didn't know that about the registration fee. *shaking head*

That's the #1 thing I didn't like about Lightning Source. It's set up so that it encourages you to become a small press publisher. Because you end up with either too few ISBNs... and have to spend more to get more... or you end up with SO many that you think, "I might as well do something with these to recoup my costs."

I don't want to become a small press publisher. And I found Lightning Source's customer service kind of annoying anyway. :P