10-01-2010, 10:38 AM
Grieve Wrote:Interesting article about the costs and profits (or lack thereof) from regular books vs e-books.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...EFTTopNews
Quote:The new economics of the e-book make the author's quandary painfully clear: A new $28 hardcover book returns half, or $14, to the publisher, and 15%, or $4.20, to the author. Under many e-book deals currently, a digital book sells for $12.99, returning 70%, or $9.09, to the publisher and typically 25% of that, or $2.27, to the author.
The upshot: From an e-book sale, an author makes a little more than half what he or she makes from a hardcover sale.
That is interesting. One would ask exactly what the "Publisher" does for their 70% in a ebook publishing. Hire lawyers to protect their revenue is my guess.
At some point and time, you would hope that the ebook / emusic business would remove the non value added middle man. I can see the need for a publisher to print and ship product when they are physical. But once you remove that, then all you have is DRM and profit leaching.
Brett
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