Re: Re: RWA's latest

  From: Emily 




  > > 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.

  Emily,

  I broadly agree with what you write here.    Except that even by putting your work on a digital file to present to the publisher you are doing half the typesetting, in effect making a payment to the publisher!    You might argue that there is no other way to present a file in today's world.

  But the point is that in traditional publishing ALL typesetting would be part of the publisher's costs.   Boundaries have changed and definitions need to do so as well.

  Joseph Harris

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