<mtiller at ntlworld.com> writes: > > > > 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%. That's not the way it was explained to me elsewhere. The Webscriptions company gets a cut, which is actually about the usual distribution chain cut. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>