Data Guy’s Web of Analysis: DBW Turns Hostility Into a Handshake

Author Earnings was born amid controversy and rancor around a Digital Book World event two years ago. The 2014 conference had worked with its sister FW Media vertical Writer’s Digest to update a survey of authors that the author Hugh Howey and a host of independent writers said was incorrectly depicting self-publishing as a financially lesser alternative. Howey’s answer was to create a new effort to gauge ebook sales that aren’t counted by typical industry statistical programs. And his partner in AuthorEarnings.com was and is an unnamed writer and technologist nicknamed “Data Guy.”