Citation-grade primary-source datasets for journalists, authors, publishers, and researchers. Every number links to its original source; every case links to its court docket.
What indie authors actually earn — per-book KDP royalty math, average and median income, the real income distribution, and what separates high earners. Every figure tied to a primary source.
typical author royalty per ebook sale on Amazon KDP’s 70% tier ($2.99–$9.99); median committed-indie income is $13,500/yr (ALLi 2025)
Verified statistics on AI in publishing — adoption among authors and inside publishing houses, reader sentiment, rights & litigation, output volume, tool-specific adoption, and economic data.
of 2025 book releases contain AI-generated content (NBER w34777, Reimers & Waldfogel)
Case-by-case docket of 46 AI copyright lawsuits, settlements, and rulings affecting authors, publishers, and book-cover designers. Each entry names parties, court, status, dollar amount, next milestone, and primary source.
Bartz v. Anthropic settlement — largest copyright settlement in U.S. history (Aug 2025)
Every dataset on this site is sourced from primary research — industry-association surveys (Authors Guild, BookBub Partners, BISG, BookNet Canada, ALLi), academic working papers (NBER, Stanford HAI), and court filings (CourtListener dockets, court PDFs, official press releases). We do not paraphrase rulings — we quote them. Dollar amounts are sourced; where unverifiable, we say so explicitly.
Pages are updated on a cadence appropriate to the underlying data: the statistics page is refreshed quarterly when new surveys land; the lawsuits tracker is refreshed monthly while major cases are active. Each page has a visible "Last verified" date and a changelog.
If you cite something from one of these pages, please cite the underlying primary source first. We're aggregators; the surveys and courts are the sources.
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