Books identified as having a female -
named author cost 45 % less on average than male - named.
Not exact matches
While the
author is still hiring these professionals for various aspects of book publishing — such as editing, marketing, or cover design, to
name a few — the
cost to hire these professionals is smaller because they will later earn a portion of the royalties.
The
cost of domain
names, website design, and hosting are now affordable for any
author and there is no reason why they should not have their own sites.
All of which is just another way to agree that Charles is right and that replacing drm with watermarking is the only viable plan c for publishers (though I'd also suggest to add in my
cost cutting plan above and hire a tech firm like kobo etc. to launch their own brand Facebook linked e-reader apps with a 6 month release window advantage on their own big
name authors while they still have locked - in big
name authors to speak of!)