Authors wonder why Amazon is villified for bad things they *might* do to authors in the future while the BPHs get a pass on the things they have been doing to authors for decades.
Try this one:
http://scrivenerserror.blogspot.com/2014/06/E605y.html
Quote:
Most of the grousing about authors' earnings concerns the base rates imposed upon them1 by commercial publishers. The authors gripe about "25% of net" for e-books, and rightly so. They gripe a little less loudly about 8%/12.5%/15% on hardcover trade fiction as a base royalty rate. They gripe loudly about advances, if seldom with numeric disclosures attached.2 What they neglect, however, is the high-discount clause: In almost all commercial publishing contracts, the author's per-copy compensation is cut in half for copies sold at a high discount (but not "remaindered", for which the author receives nothing).
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