Last week I discussed author Gary Ponzo and his success a hardcover deal bypass and create a readership exclusively through Kindle and Amazon. April 21st Wall Street Journal article points out he is not the only one go it alone; and the low price of eBooks by new authors to the block is pressure on the major publishers to reduce you.
"they are authors their brand name customers training and create visibility instead for self-published title," says one publishing lead not responsible are identified, from Amazon.
As sales surge are digital publishers a worried eye on the previously scorned self-published market convert. Unlike five years ago as a self-published authors rarely their works on the same shelf looked like the industry's biggest names, the low cost of digital publishing, in with Twitter and other social networking tools connection, has so far unknown authors a splash make enabled.
Despite this trend, publishers have to have good reasons to be satisfied with the growth of eBooks. (In fact, a little too pleased, the author according to Guild, but I, that save for a separate post.)
I recently contacted David G. Hartwell, senior editor for Tor Books, one of the leading science fiction and fantasy publishers, his take on the growth of eBooks. Tor is one of the few houses that reads even Unagented material in search for new talent. In this sense, I asked Hartwell that gate eBooks their title on the line now, or only for the best selling authors was created.
He confirmed that the numbers of Kindle and iPad eBooks to justify making everything they put out in the bookstores. In other words, best selling authors in the industry make it she have a clear one wants to higher royalties for eBook sales.
"There must be some author somewhere, which calls for higher royalties as a deal breaker," said he, "but not that I am aware at present." Each individual agent and author prefer higher royalties, and we don't want to. "We prefer above all higher revenues."
Hartwell cited March 21 issue of the Publisher's weekly (registration required), which lists eBook sales for the top sellers, in particular, the listing of titles that sold more than 10,000 copies the 2010 very: 275 adult eBooks and eBooks 83 children / young adult.
In the light of the latter category, he said "it reports sold 83 title by many less than 83 writers who published more than 10,000 eBook once for the entire industry of thousands." I suspect that one of this group of writers such a strong desire [for higher royalties], expressions could be because the eBook sales are sales, subtract from their hardcover and mass market and in fact make them less money to verdienen-Out which can never happen, or their next advance, or both ("and the many paragraphs is a complex problem, requiring declaration if it is not immediately evident.")
That is the question very much on the mind of the author's Guild members (full disclosure, I am one). And it's issue a complex, in fact, as I'll discuss in my next eBook post.
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