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Originally Posted by Mycropht
I don't think authors are the problem and I don't think the readers are the problem. For $9.99 both authors and readers could get what they want but with an extremely simplified distibution chain a lot of inbetweens are not needed anymore and they are the ones who are crying out loud. Well, my heart bleeds for them and for the music agents and for every worker replaced by a robot and for all those expert makers of horse chariots and... Maybe it is not a good thing but it cannot be stopped.
I know one thing: if I could somehow pay $9.99 for an e-book where $5 would go to the author and the rest to Amazon to cover less creative work (editing, formatting, marketing, distribution,...), the author would get more then (s)he gets now. Same goes about music.
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Pretty much what happens with author-direct DTP. An author submits his/her work directly to Amazon through their Digital Text Publishing (DTP), and gets a hefty share of the price. It's at least 35%, if I remember correctly. And I think it's more like 50%. (Nope. It's 35%, but still, that's $3.49 for each copy sold at $9.99!) Of course, at the current level, the work pretty much has to be ebook-ready. I'd like to see more offerings for cover art, layout and editing.
Derek