I follow the ebook-community forum on Yahoo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community
and there are some very knowledgeable independent ebook publishers participating and shedding light on the ways of this business, and it's not that simple as it would seem (for example Fictionwise takes ~50% cut and that is comparable to what Ingram or Amazon take for pbooks). The ultimate problem is that for viability you need visibility and numbers and sellers/distributors like Fictionwise that provide it have the upper hand...
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Originally Posted by rlauzon
That's why I believe that publishers are irrelevant in the eBook market. Authors can take their books directly to us readers, or through a low-cost intermediary like Fictionwise, and make more per book than paper books - and still charge us readers less than pBooks.
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