Royalties, Book Sales and Ebooks

A look at royalties — with cool charts! — courtesy of Jim C. Hines.

The Kindle edition of Mermaid’s Madness is $6.99, just a dollar less than the paperback. If Joe Konrath is right, this might be one reason for the relatively poor ebook sales. Speaking for myself, I won’t buy the Kindle version for that price; I’ll wait until I can afford the paperback. (Which won’t be this month because I had to blow my monthly book budget on nonfiction.)

At least it’s not as bad as Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants, though, which had a Kindle price of $19,99! WTF! It’s actually MORE than the hardcover. I was not the only one outraged. A huge number of infuriated fans gave the book 1-star, and declared a boycott. Dutton, Penguin is the publisher. Have they lost their minds? Honestly.