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Originally Posted by delphidb96
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
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I thought that in general, that the advance on a book was against royalties?
In any case, I think one thing that every publisher needs to keep in mind now is that power might well swing back towards the author. Really, we already see the fact that almost any author can now self publish on the internet. In times past, authors needed publishers not just for editing and marketing a book, but also for production and distribution. Now editing will be the prime function a publisher can provide for a book as I anticipate marketing will be more and more by word of mouth.
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Bill