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fjtorres · 07-26-2010, 02:12 PM

The other shoe dropped as expected.
http://www.teleread.com/2010/07/26/w...er-publishers/

Wylie's move has scared the pants off the other BPHs who are now flipping their royalty tables and offering 50%-plus rates on backlist ebooks instead of 20%-or-less.

As to how Amazon got the deal? Well triple royalties to the *authors* seems to be part of it.

http://www.teleread.com/2010/07/26/a...oo-much-power/

60% (or more) of gross for access to at least 80% of the market, versus 20% (or less) of the gross (or even net) for access to 100% of the market?

High School math should suffice.

(And Notice, Amazon gets 30% either way. Be sure to thank the Price-Fix Five on the way out.)

07-26-2010, 02:12 PM	#56
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	The other shoe dropped as expected. http://www.teleread.com/2010/07/26/w...er-publishers/ Wylie's move has scared the pants off the other BPHs who are now flipping their royalty tables and offering 50%-plus rates on backlist ebooks instead of 20%-or-less. As to how Amazon got the deal? Well triple royalties to the authors seems to be part of it. http://www.teleread.com/2010/07/26/a...oo-much-power/ 60% (or more) of gross for access to at least 80% of the market, versus 20% (or less) of the gross (or even net) for access to 100% of the market? High School math should suffice. (And Notice, Amazon gets 30% either way. Be sure to thank the Price-Fix Five on the way out.)