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Originally Posted by asjogren
Look, an author can make a profit on a PURCHASED $0.99 eBook at SmashWords. Last time I checked it was about half. That include all the overhead of the software development, website operation, and credit card fees.
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The Smashwords author didn't pay for proofreading or editing or pay an advance, for one thing.
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What is fundamentally *different* between books and movies? Movies cost *huge* amounts of money to produce. And often start with buying the rights to A BOOK. DVDs are in your Public Library. Yet RedBox, Netflix, and BlockBuster rent them. And you can buy them at retail. The Public Library has killed neither rental nor sales.
What does RedBox rent movies for???
Is the Movie business *that* different? Why would a $2.99 eBook rental destroy the Publishing business when RedBox prices have not destroyed the Movie business?
The Cartel should view the Public Library as a marketing partner, not as a group of "Radical Militant Librarians".
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I think you are losing track of what your scheme entails. What's different about RedBox, Netflix, etc. is that these lenders *have bought the DVDs that they're renting.* Every DVD that you rent from RedBox or Netflix has already been purchased from the publisher. That's the way current library lending works, now, too - the publishers buy a copy (or license a copy, if you will) from overdrive and then lend out that copy that they have purchased. Basically just like with regular books.
What you are proposing is that the libraries rent out books for $2.99 *that they haven't bought.*