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Originally Posted by Kyle Connor
Writers have highly benefitted from the EBook revolution as compared to the previous paperbacks.
Better explained here
https://www.google.com/#q=E-Books+vs...ooks+studymode
So we must consider this fact as well before relying on the ratings and reports if not considered previously. |
Could you clarify?
Are you comparing the ebook evolution to the paperback revolution of the 30's to the 50's or to the pre-Kindle status quo?
If the latter, yes: even the "industry standard" 17% of retail ebook royalty is an improvement over the 8% royalty typical of mmpb.
But it is still early to compare it to the paperback revolution of the last century as ebooks are still a minority format and to an extent mostly displacing the mass market format whereas paperbacks at their peak outsold all other formats and expanded the market dramatically, adding a whole new format and bringing in new buyers to what used to be a hardcover-and-magazine market.
eBooks have a ways to go yet before they become as important as paperbacks were before the corporate publishers took them over.
To a large extent, from the long time reader point of view, ebooks are merely restoring the status quo of the pre-corporate era: an industry dominated by hundreds of small independent publishers instead of one controlled by a cartel.