Beware the baffle-grab
What baffle-grab? The baffle-grab from publishers. They claim not to know how much to pay writers for their creative property in the ebook age. They claim not to know the mysterious costs of epublishing. The only solid fact they can see through all this fog is that epublishing is so very expensive, they should get the lion’s share of the royalties.
What makes this bafflegab, is that epublishing is not at all expensive compared to printed books and publishers know it. If they don’t know it, they could find it out in ten minutes’ conversation with the geek who built their website. It’s bafflegab because they are using it to befuddle writers into taking an even smaller percentage of after-cost profit than they do now. The numbers make a very simple and unbaffling statement: the lion’s share of the royalties belong to the writers. Continue reading
