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Originally Posted by Charbax
The work of copy editing can quite simply be managed by wiki type of collaborative work by all users.
Let there be an infinite amount of versions of each ebook, remixes, rewrites, it's all up to the author which "copy writer" as you call it would be wirelessly invited online to "copy edit" his writing. If that's what you claim is important.
Last I checked, 80% of the revenue from selling books and even a larger % of selling of ebooks goes to publishers and all types of other intermediaries (distributors, Amazon and others). This to me is purely criminal and completely insane.
My money should go 100% to the author, and the author can hire "copy writers" online whatever you call it, can compensate fans for helping him promote his book if he wants. Amazon should have absolutely no cut in the sale of ebooks other than taking a reasonable separate fee whatever they may charge for the bandwidth, hosting and infrastructure of the cloud computing system that they provide.
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Well, you could always start doing what my husband did. He not only bought a music CD, he got online, found some arcane formula that calculated the difference between what the CD cost and what the artist actually got from it..and sent the artist a check for the difference. So just send the author a check for the amount you think they're missing for each book you buy.