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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Hitch, maybe I'm just warped, (please stop cheering, y'all) but it seems to be a matter of cost. If the upfront cost is too much....
No upfront, and a cut of the gross? No sales, no payment, but if it sells a lot, you make a lot. No advances, just a stream of royalties from the e-books you proof. Assuming they sell, of course. And from the publisher's viewpoint, lower upfront costs and better product. Sort of like a lottery ticket, but one you work at.
Just a thought...
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Dear Ralph Sir Edward:
Nope, not on my end; it's not the cost; we have people who will proof, we have people who will edit, etc. But again: we're merely the producers (printers with digital "ink" on our fingers, so to speak).
I'd rather cut my throat than do the publisher route, no upfront and a cut of the royalties? No, thanks. Most of what gets self-pubbed isn't being pimped by John Locke, firstly, and second, in years of doing this now, in all the authors I've met (and that's a BUNCH), I've never met an author who felt that his/her publisher EVER did enough for them. Not one author. And my other issue with it would be the endless rewriting; we had to institute a per-edit fee AND a book remaking fee because the endless rewriting was bankrupting me; authors would put their books up, and 3 weeks later, when somebody had read it and sent 6 "mistakes," the author wanted the book remade. Have one client who's done it not less than 6 times. All on my nickel, of course, in the beginning, although now they don't do that for the obvious reason (the new fees). But in a no-upfront, piece of the action deal? Firstly I'd be swamped with all those DIY'ers on the KDP that don't know how to make their books; I'd have to "reject" those that I didn't think would sell, causing hard feelings, I'd be paying the editors that would be getting used to death...and...well,
I'd be a publisher, subjected to the same aspersions, calumny and general hatred displayed here. So: no, I don't think so.
Warmest,
Hitch