As Amazon-Hachette Dispute Ends, Authors Want More (Bloomberg):
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Now that the dispute between Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) and Hachette Book Group has ended, the next disagreement may pit authors against publishers over how to share e-book revenue.
Writers who stood by Hachette through the Amazon negotiations over print and digital book sales want to be rewarded for sticking by the publisher. Now they’re asking Hachette to share more of the money it receives on e-book sales with them.
At stake is revenue from sales of digital books. Under the current structure, an e-book sold by Amazon for $9 brings in about $2.70 for the Web retailer and $6.30 for the publisher and writer. A smaller fraction of that -- about $1.58 -- then goes to the author. The writers contend that their share should be greater, because there’s no manufacturing or distribution cost associated with digital books.
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