I actually have some numbers handy for one of my short stories (not pub'd through Loose Id, but Changeling, which has pretty much the same royalty rates, though the direct/3rd party ratio is a lot different) and the ARe/FW thing is pretty crazy:
But at the end of the day, yeah, I totally agree about not grumbling. It's still ~$800/1000 sales I very well may not have gotten otherwise. And I can't say I don't love FW's multiformat user bookshelf...it's nice being able to download a book to my kindle, but then get a PDF copy for my laptop if I happen to not have my kindle around and want to keep reading.
no subject
* ARe: 371 copies sold: $387.14
* Direct: 488 copies sold: $596.09
* FW: 723 copies sold: $430.14
But at the end of the day, yeah, I totally agree about not grumbling. It's still ~$800/1000 sales I very well may not have gotten otherwise. And I can't say I don't love FW's multiformat user bookshelf...it's nice being able to download a book to my kindle, but then get a PDF copy for my laptop if I happen to not have my kindle around and want to keep reading.
-Bree