{"id":2003,"date":"2009-05-19T08:40:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2009-05-19T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T14:56:13","slug":"cheaper-ebooks-means-greater-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2003","title":{"rendered":"CHEAPER eBOOKS equals LARGER AUTHOR ROYALTIES?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These guys get it, <em>yah<\/em>? \u00c2\u00a0They know they&#8217;re not selling paper and cardboard, they&#8217;re selling content. Read the story <a title=\"SCRIBD = iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-scribd18-2009may18,0,6817936.story\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> about how eBook store <a title=\"SCRIBD GETS IT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\" target=\"_self\">Scribd<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0is adapting to the new eBook market instead of trying to control it.<\/p>\n<p>The author, <strong><a title=\"Kemble Scott\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kemblescott.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Kemble Scott<\/a><\/strong>, mentioned in the article is making a go of it selling his eBook for $2.00 a copy. And at that price he&#8217;s able to make a larger royalty than going the traditional route.<\/p>\n<p>Another author, <strong><a title=\"Horror\/Mystery Books\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gwellstaylor.com\" target=\"_self\">G. Wells Taylor<\/a><\/strong>, has been selling his list of horror titles for $3.00 a pop. Visit his book store <a title=\"G. Wells Taylor Horror Titles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gwellstaylor.com\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>. His eBooks are currently downloadable as PDF files, through <a title=\"Lulu_GWellsTaylor\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.lulu.com\/wildclown\" target=\"_self\">Lulu.com<\/a>, or for order through that company as paperbacks. He says he&#8217;s currently prepping an eBook shop\u00c2\u00a0that will focus on direct multiformat eBook downloads with even lower prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These guys get it, yah? \u00c2\u00a0They know they&#8217;re not selling paper and cardboard, they&#8217;re selling content. Read the story here about how eBook store Scribd\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0is adapting to the new eBook market instead of trying to control it. The author, Kemble Scott, mentioned in the article is making a go of it selling his eBook for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2003\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}