Most of that fluff and blather is coming from new intermediaries who take a smaller
cut than traditional publishers, while putting your eBook on a virtual shelf where no one who doesn't already know it exists will ever find it.
Not exact matches
Sortable takes a 15 - %
cut of gross revenue, but Reid says
publishers end up netting 30 % more
than they do through the
traditional system because it's simpler and there are fewer moving parts to feed.
I can write an entire novel faster
than any
traditional publisher can
cut a check.
Since the financial returns from self - publishing per book are so many times greater
than the royalties paid by
traditional publishers, I could easily
cut the marketing firm in on the returns.
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than carefully selecting and investing in books in exchange for a percentage of profits as do
traditional publishers, or offering self - publishing services such as editing or design for a fee and letting authors keep their royalties, vanity presses take a
cut from both pieces of the pie.
Not a one of the major
traditional publishers has had the courage to
cut the returns system in any more
than an imprint or two.
That's probably worth the 30 % tax, and, by the way, is a much better
cut than what writers get through
traditional publishers.