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Who gets hurt in the agency model of ebook pricing? Backlist authors (e.g. you).
Backlist authors are suffering as a result of the transition to the agency model in the US, according to the editor in chief of Authorlink.com.
Doris Booth warned more and more authors will defect to Amazon, and its 70% royalty rate as a result. The comments chime with those made at a Publishers Weekly panel earlier in the week, where Paul Aiken, executive director for the Authors Guild, argued that authors were losing out to publishers at current digital royalty rates.
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October 1st, 2010 at 4:15 pm
There’s a link on a similar note in the Wall Street Journal, of all places: [see link above]