Not exact matches
In traditional
publishing, after 3 years you would have been paid your novel advance, the novel would have been
published and vanished except
maybe trickling along at 25 % of net income for you from a few
electronic sites.
But I really like this new initiative because it's not talk, it's action, and it's a pretty compelling approach to a new model of
publishing that goes way beyond simply converting books into
electronic form and,
maybe, adding a few bells and whistles.
They will tighten and they will use the
electronic publishing and
maybe even, in a decade or so, give more of a focus to POD forms of
publishing.
In
electronic publishing, book sales grow slowly, often starting out with only a couple sales per month, then
maybe only one the next month, then five the following, then seven, then five, then ten, and so on and so on.
Traditional publishers, moving quickly to
electronic publishing, are going to start relaxing their length requirements,
maybe even welcoming shorter novels due to less costs in production values.
I have been lobbying Irwin for two years to
publish their books as e-books outside of QL —
maybe now they will think of
electronic access as a new source of revenue rather than a limit on revenue.