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Originally Posted by rlauzon
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.
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Leaving aside the volume issue, the problem with this argument is that it assumes that the author publishes directly through Fictionwise, and that's not the case. You gotta be published somewhere else even if only electronically, to list at Fictionwise unless you list lots of books as far as I know. Maybe someone like Lulu would be a better choice for your argument, they take 20% I think and you set the price, but then it comes back to filtering. Who is going to find out about your book? People go to Fictionwise for a reason...
Unless there is a coop system or an "universal ranking" based on preference, or something, as an unkwnown author you need a filter through which you get exposure. Publishers do this, mostly not that great, but still right now is what we have.
Liviu