Rants and Revelations : Avoiding the Pitfalls of Publishing With Amazon Kindle Self-Publishing Platform : Authorlink

Self-published authors, according to Author Earnings, are verifiably capturing at least 24%-34% of all ebook sales in each of the five English-language markets, including the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. When including uncategorized authors, the vast majority of whom are self-published, the true indie share in each market lies somewhere between 30%-40%, the study shows. A later Author Earnings update of these data shows that taken all together, Amazon accounts for more than 80% of English-language ebook purchases. Amazon has one goal when you publish through Kindle Direct. This worldwide monopoly doesn%u2019t want you to go anywhere else for anything else related to publishing (or any other product for that matter), whether it is designing a book cover or interior layout or producing the programming code necessary to have a book published in digital form.