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In 2023, the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) commissioned the first-ever global income survey of indie authors, which discovered that self-published writers earned more than those who were traditionally published. Following on from that, they investigated further and produced ‘The Big Indie Author Data Drop 2025’. Its findings are enlightening and encouraging for self-published authors. If you would like to read the report in full, click on the image. Some of the major