dragaera-request at dragaera.info wrote: Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:25:16 -0700 From: "Maximilian Wilson" <wilson.max at gmail.com> Subject: Re: Dzur review This is the first I've heard of this. I know of authors who feel understandably uncomfortable with Amazon's policy of advertising cheaper, used copies of a book on the same page as new copies, and I've heard from other authors that books sold through Amazon get marked up substantially; but I've never heard any suggestion that author's royalties get marked down. SF author Jerry Pournelle's booklist links to Amazon (http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reviews/books.htm), and one of his major foreign correspondents (Francis Hamit) writes occasionally about his experiences selling Amazon shorts, and neither has ever mentioned that an Amazon sale pays any less than any other chain. If true, it would be a bit alarming to those of us who are interested in making sure the bard gets paid. -Max Wilson ------------------------------ By all means, make sure the bard gets paid, I pray you. It's much appreciated. Ghost-written works are never the same. Unless there's a new rule for ghost-possessed keyboards.... maybe there is. Ahem. In all seriousness, if anyone does find out about royalty markdown, please post it. I never heard of it either - but assuredly, what I have not heard of varies from what others have not heard of. Thanks. *--- --- A.S. Zanoni Personal Assistant to Steven Brust Steven's Travel & Event Schedule: http://www.angelfire.com/fang/dreamcafe_chica