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The AuthorAZ Indie Author Survey 2027

18 questions · anonymous · about five minutes

Not open yet — the survey runs from 1 December 2026 to 31 January 2027. The questions are below in full so you can read them first.

20 lifetime unlocks of the AuthorAZ app, drawn among respondents

Everyone who leaves an email address at the end of the survey can enter a draw for one of twenty lifetime unlocks of the AuthorAZ mobile app — the full vault, one time, no subscription.

The draw runs on the entry list alone. Your answers carry no identifier and your email is stored in a separate table with no link to them, so we cannot tell which responses are yours — not even to award a prize. That is the same guarantee as before; the draw does not weaken it, because it never needs to know.

One email when the survey opens, one when the results are published. This list is separate from your survey answers and is not used to identify them.

Your publishing
How long have you been publishing independently?Required
How many books have you published in total?Required
How many did you release in the last 12 months?
What do you mainly write?
Which region are you based in?

Region only. We do not ask for your country, city or any other location detail.

Money
Roughly how much did your books earn in the last 12 months, before costs?

In US dollars, converted approximately. Ranges only — we never ask for exact figures.

Roughly how much did you spend on publishing in the last 12 months?

Editing, cover design, formatting, advertising, software, audiobook production and anything else.

Which of these did you pay for in the last 12 months?
Distribution
Where do your books currently sell?
Have you changed your exclusivity arrangement in the last 12 months?
Marketing
How large is your mailing list?
Which of these did you use to market a book in the last 12 months?
Technology and AI
Do you use generative AI anywhere in your publishing workflow?
If you do use it, for which tasks?
Have any platform's AI or content policies changed which tools or platforms you use?
Where do you prefer your manuscript to live?
Challenges
What is your biggest challenge as an independent author right now?
Anything else you want to say about the year in indie publishing?

Optional. Please do not include your name, your book titles, or anything else that identifies you — free text is only ever published after editorial review, and identifying detail is removed.

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The report (optional)

If you would like the published results emailed to you, leave an address. It is stored in a separate table with no link to your answers — giving it does not attach your email to anything you said above.

The questions are published in advance so you can read them before the survey opens.

Prize draw terms

  • The prize. Twenty lifetime unlocks of the AuthorAZ mobile app, awarded as single-use redemption codes for the App Store or Google Play. Winners say which store they use. No cash alternative.
  • Entry. Tick the draw box and leave an email address when you submit the survey, between 1 December 2026 and 31 January 2027. One entry per address.
  • How winners are drawn. At random from the entry list after the survey closes, and contacted at the address they gave. Because entries are held apart from responses, the draw cannot be influenced by what anyone answered — and we could not weight it by answers even if we wanted to.
  • Unclaimed codes. A winner who does not reply within 30 days is redrawn.
  • Not affiliated. This draw is run by AuthorAZ. Apple and Google are not sponsors of it and are not involved in it in any way.
  • Void where prohibited. Entrants must be old enough to hold an App Store or Google Play account in their country.

How this survey is run, and what happens to your answers