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Making a standard trade deal means the author will get broader distribution, but the price of the book will go up to the consumer (costing sales) and the share of the price that goes to the author will diminish sharply. Nonetheless, some authors find self-publishing a path to finding a publisher and, for many, the trade-off of greater exposure and
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The retail price is also the basis for the publisher’s price to retailers or wholesalers, expressed as a “discount” off the retail price. For stores this is generally in the neighborhood of 45 percent off retail (so the store would “buy” a $20 book from a publisher for $11) and for wholesalers and very large retail accounts like Amazon or Barnes &
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On Substack, journalists are also able to find financial freedom. As Substack CEO Chris Best has said, the overarching goal is “to allow writers and creators to run their own personal media empire.” While Substack takes a 10% cut of earnings and payment company Stripe takes another 3%, writers pocket the rest. But the opportunity to find financial... See more
The Rise Of Substack—And What’s Behind It
Book Pricing and Promotion: How to Market and Promote Your Kindle Book. A Self-Publisher’s Guide to Writing Books That Sell. (Write Free Book Series)
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The more Springwater and Mackenzie thought about it, the more they thought they could build a better way. What they built became an app called Matter, a combination of a read-later app and a discovery engine for great content. Ultimately, Springwater said, it could be even more. "Reading right now is really simple," he said. "It's text on a page.... See more
David Pierce • Spotify for Readers: How Tech Is Inventing Better Ways to Read the Internet
Wouldn’t it be great if you could pay $9.99 a month and read all of the books you want? Just like you get all the movies you want from Netflix? Or all the music you want from Spotify?
Technically, it does exist. Kindle Unlimited is the largest, followed by Scribd. Audible isn’t quite all-access, but then Spotify got into audiobooks and made them so.... See more
Technically, it does exist. Kindle Unlimited is the largest, followed by Scribd. Audible isn’t quite all-access, but then Spotify got into audiobooks and made them so.... See more
On Substack, writers can directly email their audience. Medium is still figuring out their business models; they initially tried ads but now use a subscription model
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Jane Friedman | Reporting on the Publishing Industry
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