Re: RWA's latest

> > Danny,
> >
> > This is where the differences in the new model start to show. If 
you 
> > are paying 80% to the author it seems perfectly reasonable to 
charge 
> > for things like edits. The Tsaba House/RWA dispute relates to 
pbooks, 
> > and so the model is somewhat different, but it is also an area that 
> > has developed over some centuries.

As an ebook author I don't agree that fees are soem natural part of the 
ebook format.  I don't pay my publisher, they pay me.  And I never look 
at percentage of cover alone, always multiplied by their typical sales 
volumes.

If you pay a fee is suggests either the publsiher hasn;t the money to 
cover their own costs, or they don't think the book will make them 
enough money to justify the investment.  

At that point I would go with a transperant self-publishing service 
provider and realise that the risk and costs fall on me.  With ebook 
and print books alike self-publishing and being published are different 
models.  As it happens the RWA only respects and includes on of the 
two, their choice.


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