> > From: "Peter H. Granzeau" <pgranzeau at cox.net> > Date: 2006/03/12 Sun AM 06:15:32 GMT > To: skzb at dreamcafe.com > CC: Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> > Subject: Re: Question for Mr. Brust > > At 08:02 PM 3/4/2006, skzb wrote: > >It actually had nothing whatever to do with me. I still don't know > >how it works, if it works, or if I getting anything from it. I assume I do. > > I don't know what Torscriptions will be like, but Jim Baen has said > in Baen's Bar that he pays about double the royalty for an e-copy he > sells than for the paper copy. Since his production costs for > e-copies are so much less than they would be for the paper (as > opposed to editing costs), I would guess that is probably correct, > even though the cost of a Webscription is greatly discounted from the > cost of paper books for the same set of works. Not only production costs, but 100% of the sale price goes to the Publisher whereas with dead tree versions, the standard markup for the store selling the book is over 100%. Mark ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information