Like many folks right now, I’m following Hugh Howey’s new project, Author Earnings. I will have more to say eventually. This is just a placeholder post where I can keep links to various discussions and reports on the project.

• Author Earnings Initial Report and thread
• Author Earnings 2/13/14 update, What Writers Leave on the Table
• Author Earnings: The 50k Report
• Author Earnings Updates (summary page)
• Author Earnings Survey Results
• Joe Konrath mirrors the entire report with commentary and thread
• Porter Anderson’s Interview with Hugh Howey
• Article at The Bookseller
• Kboards Writer’s Cafe thread
• Hugh Howey post and thread
• The Passive Voice post and thread
• Chuck Wendig at Terrible Minds post and thread
• Dean Wesley Smith post and thread
• TPV post and thread re: TM post and thread
• Self-Publishing Roundtable Talks with Hugh Howey
• Brillig the Agent (Joshua Blimes) post and thread
• Dana Beth Weinberg at Digital Book World post and thread
• Dana Beth Weinberg at DBW (two)
• TPV post and thread re: the DBW post
• Mike Shatzkin post and thread
• TPV post and thread on Shatzkin post
• Steve Mosby post and thread
• Konrath fisks Shatzkin
• Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing post and thread
• Charlie Jane Anders at io9 post and thread
• Article at PublishersLunch
• Mary W. Walters post and thread
• Article at the Guardian
• Courtney Milan post and thread
• Joystiq post and thread
• Sunita at Dear Author post and thread
• TPV post and thread on Dear Author post
• Ed Robertson at Failure Ahoy!, analysis of publisher types by genre, top 100
• Article at FutureBooks
• JW Manus post and thread
• Joanna Cabot at Teleread
• Paul St John Mackintosh at Teleread
• PSJM at Teleread on the DBW article linked above
• Chris Meadows at Teleread
• Shawn Lealos at Examiner.com
• Konrath responds to Michael Chader at Publishers Lunch
• Michael Bunker post and thread
• Mark Coker at Publishers Weekly
• Rocking Self-Publishing Podcast Interviews Hugh Howey
• Chris Meadows at Teleread on the 50k report
• Konrath: Legacy John Fisks Hugh Howey
• TPV thread on the 50k report
• Digital Book World: Common Ground
• Eoin Purcell: Why Traditional Publishers Should Surrender
• Porter Anderson: Sir Hugh and the Snail
• Dave Farland: Why I’m No Longer Cautiously Optimistic about the Future of Publishing
• Randy Ingermanson: Hugh Howey and the Tsunami of Cash (contains math!)
• Randy Ingermanson: Questions about Hugh Howey’s Results (also with math!)

Indirectly related material:

• George Packer on Bezos and Amazon in the Feb. 14 New Yorker
• Analysis of Kindle Top 100 at Dodecahedron Books
• The Digital Reader’s analysis of Amazon and Trade Publishing book sales
• Digital Book World reports on a Bowker analysis of U.S. book sales
• Foner Books: Book Sales Statistics
• H.M. Ward: I turned down over a million bucks in trad deals, plus other tips for Indies
• Book Contracts, post by Baldur Bjarnason (ed: read this, seriously, read this)
• The Guardian – Self-publishing: is it killing the mainstream?