Writers Tricks of the Trade January-February 2015 | Page 19

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THE SHATZKIN FILES
The Shatzkin Files is always a very interesting source of information.
Here is an excerpt from the December 31 entry.

END OF A YEAR, AND PERHAPS THE END OF A STAGE OF
THE EBOOK TRANSITION
The year ends with a front-page New York Times story reporting the
consternation in the indie author community at the current state of their
commercial lives at Amazon. The proximate cause of distress is seen to be the
Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscription service, through which indie authors
are receiving considerably less compensation per read than they get through
a sale, combined with the apparent migration of many Kindle readers to
subscription, which would also explain the simultaneous sharp decline in
those authors’ single-copy sales. Indie author and author service-provider
Bob Mayer is quoted in the piece describing a complete turnaround in the
past six months, with authors going from what they ѡ