tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post537380330083868154..comments2024-02-16T14:10:12.166+08:00Comments on Bibliophile Stalker: Essay: The Difficulty of Pricing eBooks Part IUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-90235851249841623602009-10-02T07:46:36.854+08:002009-10-02T07:46:36.854+08:00Your ratios are slightly off, unless things have c...Your ratios are slightly off, unless things have changed dramatically since I studied this stuff in college. Traditionally, bookstores got 40% and distributors got 15% of the cover price of each book sold. The publisher only gots to keep 35%, since the author gots 10% (sometimes 15%) of the cover price. <br /><br />My understanding is that in the era of Wal-mart and Barnes & Nobel, the retailers are demanding bigger discounts, so the publishers' share has shrunk a bit, to around 25-30%.<br /><br />With ebooks, there is no distributor, just the publisher and the ebookseller. IIRC, the usual arrangement is that the ebookseller and the publisher split the sale price 50-50, with the publisher paying the author's 10% cut out of their share. That still gets the publisher out ahead of the game, if only they could sell as many ebooks as they can paper books.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-67646007641683015712009-07-29T21:12:50.514+08:002009-07-29T21:12:50.514+08:00Just wanted to say that I found this enlightening,...Just wanted to say that I found this enlightening, although my eyes/brain started to glaze over towards the end... There's so much in this industry that's so hard to process!! That's something they don't tell you when you're a 9-year-old dreaming of being a published author.Kristanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04771013578685419826noreply@blogger.com