Author Joe Konrath Sells A Lot More Books On Amazon Than iBookstore

Thriller author Joe Konrath sells a lot more eBooks through the Kindle store than through the iBookstore. On his blog last week, he said: “I sell 200 ebooks a day on Kindle. On iPad, I sell 100 a month.” While obviously an author’s sales channels will vary by genre and retailer, this does raise questions around Steve Jobs’ claim that Apple has 22% of the eBook market.

These sales figures are causing a dilemma for Konrath, as he has observed that publishers are dropping authors and not printing as many books. Those authors that are staying on, Konrath observed in his blog, are getting into enhanced eBooks. “Enriched ebooks seem expensive, and I don’t see the money pouring in yet,” he wrote in his blog.

Konrath also warned publishers to give authors a better take. He wrote: “But if print goes the way of the dodo, publishers will have to rely on ebooks. Plain old non-enriched ebooks. And if they keep offering authors 17.5% royalty on the cover price, they soon won’t have any authors to publish. After all, authors can get 70% on their own. And it doesn’t take 18 months to release it. Plus the author gets to pick the price, cover, and title.”

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