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Originally Posted by Scott Nicholson
The major problem for authors right now is they are being held hostage by the publishers, getting 15 percent royalty on an ebook. So of course they would rather get 15 percent of the $25 hardcover than 15 percent of the $10 ebook.
But the truth is they are the content creators and owners, and they should be getting at least 50 percent of their ebook profits. But right now pretty much every paper deal locks them into that paltry ebook royalty rate for a long, long time, maybe for the entire life of copyright, because there's no reason for an ebook to ever go out of print.
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Agree. And us as consumers shouldn't be taking it out on authors, but rather on the publishers who are causing the problem--and who are becoming less needed as we move to a digital era and the need to make and distribute physical property shrinks as time goes on.
So I find it very lame to give low reviews when an author complains about consumers not wanting to pay a price that gives him his fair share. Or suggest that authors should just smile and happily take less money for the same amount of work. Or argue that they should write for the good of literature and not for profit etc.
Bitch about the publishers who are driving prices up for US and screwing authors out of fair pay for their work.
Don't take it out on the authors, even when they put their foot in their mouths a bit sometimes. It's a stressful time to be someone trying to make it as an author with publishers screwing them as always, ebooks lowering price per book and raising piracy etc.