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Originally Posted by dhbailey
Some powerful authors withhold electronic editions because of the economic issue -- if they get 15% of what the publisher gets, then they'll get more from an $8 paperback than from a $4 ebook. And we're all complaining that we want the ebooks to cost less than the paper books because of lower distribution and production costs. Yet contracts are in percentages, so lower prices mean lower profits for writers. We can't have it both ways.
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But that must be a problem with the authors contract. If the distribution and production cost is lower they have to get a higher percentage in their contracts.