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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
the Hugos -- outside of the Nebulas the most prestigious awards for sci-fi -- ought to be a huge driver of sales in e-books and p-books. But if leading e-book vendors don't have them ... what's the value in winning the award?
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The "sell from the publisher's web site" model has worked for Baen well enough that small publishers like NightShade have joined up. However, I agree that ignoring the Kindle store will loose at least some sales (and perhaps a lot of sales over time for Hugo winners). If NightShade authors have the same deal as at Baen, they could still publish themselves on the Kindle (webscriptions have a world-wide non-exclusive distribution licence). This now makes a lot of sense with Amazon's "70% of selling price royalty" deal.