What About Those Numbers? Over at Author Earnings, Hugh Howey and Data Guy released the July sampling and talked about it. Worth the read, folks. http://authorearnings.com/july-2014-author-earnings-report/ The rest of this post is an expanded response to a question on my daily blog about what I thought about those numbers. It’s hard to argue with numbers like that, even though they are taken from only one bookstore. Yanking a sampling like that only once is an interesting thing, but having the numbers remain consistent over three samples spread six months apart is stunning and is giving the data more credibility. The idea that traditional publishing is the “only way” to publishing…