12-12-2009, 08:51 PM | #1 | |
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Who owns the ebook rights to older books?
There's an interesting article in today's NYTimes on this topic. From the article:
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12-12-2009, 10:55 PM | #2 |
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It was also interesting to note that two judges, including an appeals court, have both ruled against Random House.
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12-13-2009, 12:06 AM | #3 |
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12-13-2009, 12:26 AM | #4 |
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In theory, writers can now publish themselves on the Amazon Kindle for a relatively small fee to Amazon.com. I guess that editing, promoting, secretarying, proofing, and validating by the establishment is quite costly for writers.
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12-13-2009, 12:42 AM | #5 |
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12-13-2009, 12:45 AM | #6 | |
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And that's exactly what they're paying the lion's share of profits for: validation. It has nothing to do with editing, proofing and all the rest of that gumpf (picking up any recent best-seller will prove that editing and proofing are long lost concepts). Here's a breakdown of an author's actual sales figures, from a recent article on Publetariat.com (http://www.publetariat.com/think/par...nal-publishers). These figures show his earnings with and without the publisher involved. Ebooks from Hyperion sold on Kindle - Earnings from Jan. 1 to June 31, 2009. - 6 titles published on Kindle. - Price range per book: $3.96 -$7.99 - 1237 ebooks sold in 6 months. - Total royalties: $2008 Self-published ebooks sold on Kindle - Earnings from Jan. 1 to June 31, 2009 - 4 titles published on Kindle. - Price range per book: $1.99 - 9800 books sold in 6 months. - Total earnings: $6860 *************** Last edited by Moejoe; 12-13-2009 at 12:57 AM. |
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12-13-2009, 01:01 AM | #7 | |
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This an interesting quote
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12-13-2009, 01:28 AM | #8 | |
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However, there is a difference when the book is in final form. With ebooks, there is little releasing cost (meaning no printing, packing, shipping, storage, and store sales charges) that are associated with physical books. About the only thing that ebooks require before final release is to format them for the appropriate reader. To illustrate: a book in the public domain is available for free and is formatted for your reader. The cost of the book to you is $0.00. The same book as a printed paperback book costs $5.25 ($5.00 plus 5 percent local sales tax). In both cases, there is no production cost, but only the printed book has a releasing cost. Just my thoughts, please feel free to correct me if I got something wrong. |
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12-13-2009, 01:51 AM | #9 |
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what IS your issue? what kind of personal attack is this? what are your shortcomings that you feel the need to randomly off topic go after people and or readers in different threads?
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12-13-2009, 02:46 AM | #10 |
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Yes, interesting article.
My primary concern at the moment is getting these books, not who sells them to me (provided it is indeed a legal source, that is). |
12-13-2009, 03:03 AM | #11 | |
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On the NYT article colour me surprised that publishing houses are trying to assert they own the rights to something that didn't even exist when they bought the rights. Authors & their agents are going to have to pay close attention to contracts to make sure publishers aren't buying rights for things that don't exist now but may in the future. |
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I think it is IMPOSSIBLE for ebooks to cost the same with print books to publishers. Even if the "writing, editing, formatting" costs stay the same, there is no cost for "printing, storing, shipping" ebooks. Distributing ebooks (aka putting in on the ebooks selling websites) might still cost something, but as technology advances this will only go lower.
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