{"id":31,"date":"2013-05-22T20:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T20:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/journal\/?p=31"},"modified":"2015-10-29T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T00:57:15","slug":"ebook-publishing-model-extremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Book Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one corner we have the traditional book publishers such as Harper Collins, owned by News Limited. In <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/87184\/the-steve-jobs-emails-that-show-how-to-win-a-hard-nosed-negotiation\/\">emails released by the US government<\/a> in their fixed-price lawsuit against Apple, News Limited&#8217;s James Murdoch in negotiation with Apple&#8217;s Steve Jobs says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The economics are simple enough. [Amazon] Kindle pays us a wholesale price of $13 and sells it for 9.99. An author gets $4.20 on the sale of a hardcover and $3.30 on the sale of the e-book on the Kindle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And in the other corner, we have self publishers such as Sacha Greif, Jarrod Drysdale and Nathan Barry. In <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.asmartbear.com\/selling-ebook.html\">a blog post<\/a> discussing self publishing sales of all three authors, Barry reveals sales from the first 48 hours of his recent book, The App Design Handbook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 48-hour sales total was $19,547 from 322 sales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On one hand, we have a major player in the publishing business quite happy for it&#8217;s main ebook e-tailer to make a loss on each sale, and in the other, three individuals writing and publishing their own material and publicly discussing how to make the best out of it.<\/p>\n<p>I know which model is going to succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one corner we have the traditional book publishers such as Harper Collins, owned by News Limited. In emails released by the US government in their fixed-price lawsuit against Apple, News Limited&#8217;s James Murdoch in negotiation with Apple&#8217;s Steve Jobs says: The economics are simple enough. [Amazon] Kindle pays us a wholesale price of $13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}