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Originally Posted by da_jane
Worse, I've had reports from print authors saying that the royalty percentage on ebooks is less which then tends to drive their desire for ebook sales even lower.
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Clearly print publishers want nothing to do with e-book publishing, hence, the low percentages. This suggests that the job of e-book publishing may have to fall to the authors themselves, and not the traditional pub houses. Of course, the value of the web is that it is possible to do exactly that (as I have).
A smaller version of the co-op idea may be author-editor teams, selling via their own web sites, and inking separate print deals (with no e-book limitation clauses) with publishers. Either established authors with some clout, or successful e-book authors, will have to be the first to set the example for others by demanding an "e-book freedom" clause. Later, when other authors renegotiate their publisher contracts, they can pursue the "e-book freedom" clause and e-publish on their own.