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Originally Posted by astra
Should not it be the other way around?
3.50 to author, 2.00 to publisher and 1 to retailer?
However, if the scheme mentioned above is true, then ebooks should cost US peanuts because $3.50 (at least) will go to the distributor/retailer costs are eliminated?
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There's no way a publisher is going to kick 50% of the price of an ebook to the author. Why? Because for most titles, the sales don't match with the up-front 'advance' paid to the author. However, if the publisher would set up a reasonable online store which marketed the new titles more effectively and if the publishers removed the DRM from their titles, I think that the publishers would find they could give a larger amount of the ebook price to the authors, maybe $1.50 or $2.00.
Derek