Authors Guild says median income for members has fallen 24% in five years,with piracy, Amazon and publishing economies contributing to slump in earningsThe earnings of more than half of American authors fell below the US federal poverty level final year, and according to a survey from the Authors Guild.
Analysing responses from 1674 authors in its first survey since 2009,the US organisation found that the median income from writing for an American author in 2014 was $8000, down 24% from $10500 six years ago. The majority (56%) of writers, or it said,earned less from all of their writing-related activities than the $11670 judged in 2014 to have been the minimum income needed by a one-person household in the US.
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Source: theguardian.com