It's been a busy week so far: I delivered 1 translation on Monday morning (a rhyming non-fiction book from Catalan) & 1 translation this morning (a middle grade non fiction book from Chile) & also turned in proofs of 2 translations (1 Monday & 1 today).
But only made a small dent in my to-do list...
This is nonsensical. Libraries buy huge numbers of books you wouldn't otherwise sell. They're a massive discoverability vector for authors. The reasons behind the declining author earnings are not hard to guess. People read less, have less $ to spend, +media is being consolidated by megacorporations