Comments on: Publishers Having Their eBook Cake and Eating It http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/publishers-having-their-ebook-cake-and-eating-it/ the neverending reference interview of life Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:16:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Where’s the Logic? « Agnostic, Maybe http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/publishers-having-their-ebook-cake-and-eating-it/#comment-4063 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:33:33 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/publishers-having-their-ebook-cake-and-eating-it/#comment-4063 [...] not sure I get it. But in looking at the publisher margins for ebooks: (as I wrote about in a post about two weeks ago) How much better for the publisher and how much worse for the author? Here are examples of [...]

]]> By: ePublishing HQ http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/publishers-having-their-ebook-cake-and-eating-it/#comment-3974 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 02:04:26 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/publishers-having-their-ebook-cake-and-eating-it/#comment-3974 [...] through the complete page here This entry was posted in Digital Publishing. Bookmark the permalink. ← Sauter Soars To [...]

]]> By: Kristin http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/publishers-having-their-ebook-cake-and-eating-it/#comment-3973 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 01:55:24 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/publishers-having-their-ebook-cake-and-eating-it/#comment-3973 Can someone clarify how the Guild quoted above reached the royalty figures it did? If an average-ish hardcover retail price is $20, isn’t the standard author royalty 10% of the sales price? The figures above are more like 20%. Now it is possible that these particular authors receive a bigger royalty as best-selling authors, but I’m just not sure these numbers are replicable beyond the bestsellers’ list.

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