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I don't need to prove to you that you can measure hits, measure trafic, monitor user activity on the Internet. Don't you think Google Books has pretty accurate statistics on the number of time each page of each ebook has been loaded on their site? Don't you think Amazon has a pretty good idea how many times the ebooks have been loaded on the Kindle store? Don't you think BitTorrent trackers can count amount of times the files are downloaded? Don't you think that authenticated server statistics can be reliably monitored? Don't you think that a new type of Open Android Connected E-Reader can report statistics of actual reading time on each page voluntarilly to a Government supported independent statistics measuring system?
Simply take that, you've got a way to pretty accurately give money to the artists from a subscription model or from a tax model based on the popularity of their works. Same thing for advanced payments. Would you like me to make you a drawing?
Sure the publishers, distributors, retailers aren't dead yet. Sure the Obama art tax hasn't been introduced yet. That's what this forum is for, discussing what has to happen with ebooks in the future.
I just did a couple of Google searches, I cannot find statistics showing which shares of the current overall book publishing industry revenue that goes to the 10-man Science-Fiction publishers and which share goes to the major publishers for commercial books. I've heard it before and it makes sense, and you are welcome to do the research and post the real statistics here. The bulk of the publishing industry revenue goes to a few large publishers publishing a few very commercial books. That very few, probably fewer and fewer authors are able to make a living under the current system. That more and more 10-man Science Fiction publishers have to close down shop and that those authors aren't going to be published at big publishers unless they are sure to be making huge profits.
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