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Originally Posted by Zedd
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What is should say, is all publishers will not publish an authors books any longer unless they sell them the e-book rights too.
Also you see how most places give less then 20%.
So if you are an authot who owns the e-books rights to you older works and your publisher wants to put them out and says you can only have 10-20%. Would you do it?
Liek in the one example is it worth it for the extra 84 bucks the author made?
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Well, in this event, as an author, I'd self-publish the e-books, especially if I were already an established name... (I appreciate the ramifications of that would need to be considered - but ultimately bullying - commercial, political or any other sort should not be tolerated...)
Publishers need to be reminded that they are, in essence, little more than a distributor of other people's creations - and their slice of the pie, so to speak - should reflect that.. After all, people read books by a particular author, or a particular genre, or a particular subject. While I agree that marketing is pretty important these days, I suspect an advertising agency doesn't generally get to lay claim to 90% of the income for the products they market....
I do appreciate that many publishers offer other services as part of the package - help with editing the work etc - but perhaps it's time to start unbundling these services to show where value is really being added, and where it's not...