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Originally Posted by delphidb96
*BOOKS* may well be meant to be 'passed on', but storytelling is pretty much a 'performance-oriented' art. (And then there's the whole, "You can have my books when you pry them from my cold, dead hands" viewpoint - to which I happen to subscribe!  )
Don't know, but self-publishing sales figures is a relevant point. Still, the question also arises, how many publishing-house, mid-list authors have books that have reached the 12,500 copies sales volume??? Thus, if we can determine that the average first-time genre author sells 7,000 copies @ $6.99 (or 5,000 or even 2,700), then after deducting editing, formatting and art costs, the self-published author who chooses the Amazon DTP ebook route *WILL* make more than one who sells to MacM for a $10,000 advance and an 8% royalty rate. ($4.05 * 7,000 = $28,350 - less, of course any editing, layout and formatting and cover art fees.)
And you're right again, cover art, even for an ebook is very important. I'd no more buy an ebook with a generic white w/black-color text 'cover' than I'd buy a box of cereal with that kind of packaging.
Derek |
Pardon me, folks, but think this through. If you're going to do cover art for the hardback/paperback, please explain to me why you can't use
the same art for the e-book? If you are going to electronic typesetting, explain why you have to have different proofing/editing for the e-book? These are common expenses, not matter what form (or how many forms) you reproduce the work in....