tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945802533317836555.post687356974098973114..comments2024-02-10T20:37:45.771-08:00Comments on GARY DOBBS AT THE TAINTED ARCHIVE: Arkansas eSmithGary Dobbs/Jack Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10935686140719743351noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945802533317836555.post-89807954313761015712011-09-21T20:00:45.623-07:002011-09-21T20:00:45.623-07:00I hope you're being offered a fair deal on you...I hope you're being offered a fair deal on your ebook western, Gary. Many traditional publishers are still offering the authors of their backlist titles only 25% of "<i>net cash proceeds</i>" -- i.e. what's left after everybody else (formatter, retailer, taxman) has been paid and the publisher has kept 75% of the remaining profit.<br /><br />If that's the deal here it would work out like this:<br />£3.99 less 20% VAT equals £3.20.<br />£3.20 less 50% for the retailer equals £1.60.<br />£1.60 less 20% to Faber Factory (for "origination"/formatting) equals £1.28.<br />25% of £1.28 equals 32 pence.<br /><br />Personally, I think most writers would do better producing their own ebooks. By accepting the standard Amazon deal, you can keep 70% of a download price of £2.10. To me, accepting 32 pence sounds like an author reckons the publisher is going to sell more than four times the ebooks he could sell him/herself!<br /><br />I think most of the astonishing sales of the Jack Martin BHWs have been achieved by social networking efforts rather than anything the publisher has done. It will probably prove the same for ebooks.Chap O'Keefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04404176810063857291noreply@blogger.com