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Originally Posted by Barcey
It's about getting paid for the value and services that you add and not about maintaining what you were previously paid. If you are adding value (like the author) you have nothing to fear. If you are taking a larger percentage then the value you're adding then you have something to fear. That's all this is about. It's about the publishers no longer being in the driver seat cutting up the pie and telling everyone else how little they deserve.
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I agree that it's about getting paid for services and value. The problem is that there is a fundamental disagreement about both the value (and necessity) of the services publisher's provide, and the costs incurred by the publishers to provide those services.
The lower a value one places on certain services, the less legitimate one is likely to consider costs arising from those services. We've already seen a significant disagreement on the value of editing, and I'm sure that's not the only such area of disagreement.
Personally, I think the value of the services added by a publisher are enough to put the cost of an ebook easily into the mass-market paperback range of $6-8 at retail - and that $5-7 is a reasonable premium to pay for access to the story before it's out in mass-market paperback.