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Originally Posted by starrigger
The public perception is that authors should be able to simply stream their text into some kind of ebook-maker black box, and it comes out effortlessly, but in truth it's a lot harder than that. (Which is one reason ebooks aren't yet cheaper than paper books. There might not be printing and paper costs, but there are many other costs.)
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Oh, wasn't saying it could be quite that simple end-to-end. But in your case you've got electronic versions of your books which have (I understand?) already gone through the primary stages of the editing process and you are integrating the final bits of copy-editing yourself. And from there you really
are streaming it directly to your readers, at least for these give-aways. A system which primarily handled just the final stages of e-book production and storefront could operate by taking only a small cut of each sale. And I guess I just like the idea of radically decentralized markets
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