Average Monthly Earnings from E-book?

Saskatoonistan · Mar 15, 2010

Paul said:
I know this may be a tricky one, but some ball park figures of sales for say a fantasy novella of 25,000 words?

Not Mucking Fuch.

8thSamurai · Jun 6, 2010

In that genre (aside from YA) a longer word count isn't terrible, and what you have is considered a very long short story (yeah, it's confusing).

SFF novellas tend to start at around 40k words.

veinglory · Jun 7, 2010

I haven't published a new ebook in about a year and they still make me 100-200 dollars a month. However that is based on 15 titles, a couple of them novel length.

MartinD · Jun 7, 2010

Emily, are you averaging $10 a title or are the majority of your earnings coming from one or two books?

veinglory · Jun 7, 2010

It is very uneven. For me werewolves and vampires sell, elves and Englishmen do not. If I release something new it tends to make $1000 in the first month and decrease over 6-10 months to a background level. I make no particular effort to write hot topics and publish with some very small presses, so it is certainly possible to make a lot more than I do.

KMTolan · Jun 7, 2010

veinglory said:
It is very uneven. For me werewolves and vampires sell, elves and Englishmen do not. If I release something new it tends to make $1000 in the first month

Looks at Veinglory, looks at last royalty check, looks at Veinglory, throws check in trash and vows to switch over to writing fantasy.

Kerry (grin)

dclary · Jun 7, 2010

I know it's not romance or fantasy, but I've found a small niche selling a how-to book for a facebook game. Crazy, right?

Currently averaging $250 a week in sales... Minus about $50 in expenses nets right about $200/weekly.

I think we're back at the "Your mileage may vary" point, though... there is so much anecdotal evidence in so many directions, that really, the only way to find out how much money you might make... is to go out there and start making it.

Laurie PK · Jun 13, 2010

Wow, I can't believe the range of both types of ebooks and earnings!

I earned $90 last month from Fire Up the Muse (9 sales). Not great, but I don't market it at all (other than posting the cover here and on my blogs).

Must...get...better...at....promotion.....

Average Monthly Earnings from E-book?

Saskatoonistan

Still the wrong side of Saskatoon

8thSamurai

veinglory

volitare nequeo

MartinD

Thought I'd stop by

veinglory

volitare nequeo

KMTolan

No drama

dclary

Unabashed Mercenary

Laurie PK

Fulltime blogger & freelance writer