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This post is a continuation of the previous, where co-op, advertising allowances, free freight, and other examples of discount creep were discussed.
Publishers are now increasingly paying authors a royalty based on net sales rather than a percentage of the list price of copies sold. Can a publisher add co-op fees, advertising allowances, and free freight … Read More »
This post is the follow-up to the previous, which addressed what distributors do now at a time when printed books still dominate book sales, and will describe the role of distributors as the industry transitions to eBooks.
The advent of the eBook changes everything. Distributors are about to be disintermediated (a fancy way of saying put … Read More »
Will there be a need for book distributors in the age of electronic publishing?
This post will cover what distributors do now at a time when printed books still dominate book sales overall. The next post will describe the role of distributors as the industry transitions to eBooks.
For most of the forty years that book distributors … Read More »
In the last post to this blog I pointed out that the Big Six publishers have about 51% of the overall market for print books, and that this percentage was just fine. The 49% left over for independent publishers is easily enough to support a vibrant literary culture.
But to what extent do the Big Six … Read More »
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