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Originally Posted by apbschmitz
Over the years I've had a couple novels published, including one by Random House about 20 years ago. A few days ago I got a note from them, asking if I want to sign off on electronic distribution rights for a 25 percent cut of future sales. Given that there are no current sales to speak of, except for whatever occurs in the used book market, 25 percent of something seems better than 100 percent of nothing. But I wonder if others out there have received similar notes recently, and what your thinking about this is.
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You don't need to answer this publically, but ask yourself, what were your sales of the previous works? How much "remebrance" of your work still exist in the reader world? Like any business, this is a base number to guess sales at.
And if you self e-publish, you'll need to do lots of marketing work of your titles. On the other hand, you get a bigger share of the profits of your business. There was an article about this last week in the Wall Street Journal (I forget which day.) It's something to review and think about.