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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
There was a discussion on the yahoo e-book community group about that and Fictionwise takes 50 or 55% of the "cover price". The e-authors posting there felt it was acceptable for the exposure, since Fictionwise is to a large extent the e-book retailer of reference for now at least for unencrypted stuff.
So I tend to agree that it's going to be very hard to make a living (authors, retailers...) in the e-book business at low price points, and conversely, people do not want to pay too much for e-content. That to me is the ultimate dillema for e-books, more than drm and the Tower of Babel in formats.
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pBook - Author makes $0.70 per book sold. Let's be generous and say $1.00.
eBook - Most Fictionwise books that I've seen are about $4. If Fictionwise takes 50%, then the author gets the other $50 or $2 per eBook sold.
It seems to me that $2.00 > $1.00.
Now, I agree that today it will be impossible for an author to make money off an eBook but that's simply because the market is small today.
When eBooks start selling like paper books do today, then that's a different story.