My last post tried to lay out a comparison of royalties paid by big publishers to agented authors on ebooks against what they pay on print books. What it showed is that the authors suffer a bit on ebook sales that substitute for hardcover print … [Continue reading]
Lots going on; no single topic today
I find myself with a lot of pages open on my web browser. Even before Amazon's announcement yesterday about ebooks passing hardcovers in sales this past quarter, there has been a lot going on. There had been some suggestions, which I never bought … [Continue reading]
Planning the next publishing model: a new take on “no returns”
Although there are some very good minds working on the next publishing model -- Jane Friedman with Open Road and Richard Nash with Cursor being the first two that leap to mind -- I have developed a couple of thoughts that might be helpful to them or … [Continue reading]
Serious thoughts about the business (published by Barnes & Noble)
Daniel Menaker was not long ago the Executive Editor-in-Chief at Random House and writes knowledgeably about the state of play and state of mind inside Big Publishing today. His piece Redactor Agonistes is a psychological snapshot of a declining … [Continue reading]
The Sourcebooks experiment with Bran Hambric: publishers in the early “establishment” stage of ebook adoption
In a post last week we reviewed what Sourcebook CEO Dominque Raccah did -- announcing she was holding back the ebook publication of a new hardcover YA novel coming this September -- and why she said she did it. Over the weekend, we posted about what … [Continue reading]
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