I bought an ebook from webscriptions.net, Baen Books' online bookstore,
last night, and got to wondering about how their royalty rates to the
authors vary between ebooks and mass-market paperbacks. The retail cost
of the ebook (_Fledgling_, by Steve Miller and Sharon Lee) was $6.00;
most MMPB's these days retail for $7 to $9. The per-book cost to the
publisher is lower for an ebook, since they aren't having to pay for
paper and ink, and the financial cost for the disk space for a single
copy of an ebook is bound to be far less than the financial cost for
warehousing a print run. On the other hand, editorial costs and the like
should be about the same regardless of the physical medium involved.
So, do authors make about the same royalties on ebooks and mass-market
paperbacks, or is the royalty prorated along with the retail price? I
know that the royalties paid for hardbacks and trade paperbacks are
generally more per copy than those paid for mass-market paperbacks.
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John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria
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