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Originally Posted by neilmarr
As long as retailers demand as much -- or more -- of the cover price of a book as the author, editor, publisher, printer and physical distributor combined, and still sell second-hand books with financial benefit to nobody but themselves, I have little sympathy. N
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Retailers and distributors, like printers and truck drivers, put some work in every single copy of the book being sold.
Authors, editors and cover designers don't.
Obviously, if an author like John Grisham puts up a site to sell his (e)books directly to the public, he'd double his income.
And if he goes DRM-free, multiformat and with bundle offerings like Steve Jordan does, he can do even better.
I really don't know why big names don't follow that path...
