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nomesque · 04-29-2010, 07:24 PM

Seeking opinions!

I've been mulling over this idea for a while...

There seem to be a number of authors around who find epublishing more effort than they'd like to expend, and also a number in need of an editing service. So I'm thinking that there could be a market for an epublishing service - editing + ebook formatting for a share of whatever sales might be made. Which, I honestly believe, WILL be higher with some polishing.

Here's the model I'm considering:

- I retain worldwide global rights to distribute the ebook for 2 years (to protect me from doing lots of work on a book, only to have the author take it back and not share profits)

- Two pricing options (author pays me): US$300 upfront and 10% of the list price (OR sale price) per sale - OR nothing upfront and 30% of the list price (OR sale price) per sale

- I publish via Smashwords using a Publisher account, which ensures that the correct person (the author, not me) gets credit for the work, payments go through me, but as long as the author has a Smashwords account, they get independent sales figures from Smashwords.

If you fitted into one of those categories, do you think you'd be interested in signing up with someone who'd edit and format your ebook (you having final say in the editing process), plus do some promotion for you, on those sort of terms? Would you have any concerns that I might not have considered? Would you consider this sort of thing to be different to Lulu and the like?

04-29-2010, 07:24 PM	#1
nomesque Snooty Bestselling Author Posts: 1,485 Karma: 1000000 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Ipswich, QLD, Australia Device: PRS-650	Epublishing service - what do you think? Seeking opinions! I've been mulling over this idea for a while... There seem to be a number of authors around who find epublishing more effort than they'd like to expend, and also a number in need of an editing service. So I'm thinking that there could be a market for an epublishing service - editing + ebook formatting for a share of whatever sales might be made. Which, I honestly believe, WILL be higher with some polishing. Here's the model I'm considering: - I retain worldwide global rights to distribute the ebook for 2 years (to protect me from doing lots of work on a book, only to have the author take it back and not share profits) - Two pricing options (author pays me): US$300 upfront and 10% of the list price (OR sale price) per sale - OR nothing upfront and 30% of the list price (OR sale price) per sale - I publish via Smashwords using a Publisher account, which ensures that the correct person (the author, not me) gets credit for the work, payments go through me, but as long as the author has a Smashwords account, they get independent sales figures from Smashwords. If you fitted into one of those categories, do you think you'd be interested in signing up with someone who'd edit and format your ebook (you having final say in the editing process), plus do some promotion for you, on those sort of terms? Would you have any concerns that I might not have considered? Would you consider this sort of thing to be different to Lulu and the like? Last edited by nomesque; 04-30-2010 at 04:36 AM.