Where Poll: Do the Bulk of Your eBook Earnings Come From?

The great majority of my sales are direct from my publishers, I don't know which formats. A significantm minority are from distributors like Fictionwaise and allromanceebooks, again I do not know which formats. I assume these vendors make the book available in the mosy popular formats. I buy my own ebooks as pdfs.

All of my EC sales come from the EC website. My other pubs offer the works on their sites and at third party vendors. I don't know any numbers yet as I've just recently released works with them. I would expect, though, the bulk of my sales to come from the publisher's site. Royalties from third party vendors will be lower, of course, than those I earn from the publisher's site. It's a trade off for greater exposure, I guess.

As to your question about formats: I only have one publisher that breaks it down by format. From that one publisher, I can tell you that half of those sales are pdf.

As for where the sales come from, it's all over the board. One publisher distributes practically everywhere (lots of sales that way) and I have very little sales from their site. With other publishers, most of the sales are from the pub site, but as mlhernandez mentioned, the third party vendor sales give me great exposure (if lower royalties)

Hope that helps.