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Mar.24.2010
Will Britain finally reform its libel laws? Will the revisions come in time to save a cartoonist? Will the great new publishing royalty model go down in flames? Will the agency model for e-books be good for publishing companies and authors or will it start a devastating price war? These and...
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Mar.10.2010
Where the law and literature meet
We’re blowing it guys. The public doesn’t understand why copyright is important, so it’s time to switch the message: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/451848-Publishers_Urged_to_Change_the_Focus_of_the_Copyright_Debate.php
Chinese writer sues James...
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Feb.25.2010
A reader wrote to me with a series of questions on the writing life, the publishing universe, and everything. I asked her permission to answer some of them here.
How did you support yourself while you wrote? How did you manage fears about money? What other streams of revenue come from your book...
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Nov.25.2009
Remember when I said that my erotica doesn't sell? Well, a lot of it doesn't sell that well, at least, not in proportion to the time it takes me to edit the books/money+effort spent promoting them. But I just got yet another royalty check for Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women and was thrilled to...
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Nov.02.2009
Almost all publisher contracts pay authors through a system of royalties, a certain defined percentage of revenue based upon sales of the contracted book. The concept is simple, but it can get quite complicated in practice. Let's talk about the different formulas that publishers use in calculating...
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Oct.26.2009
I've been speaking to a lot of authors lately, successful ones who make their living writing. Some of them make a pretty good living. I'm finding that a lot of them don't really understand the economic fundamentals of publishing. They don't even understand the meaning of "the book deal" a...
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Sep.17.2009
My fellow authors laughed when I said I was publishing my fourth book with Numina Press. Then they learned my cut of each sale.
How big is the difference? Try three times as much money each sale.
Numina is an exclusive commercial publisher that uses print-on-demand technology to radically alter...
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Aug.18.2009
I bet your agent owns a summer home in upstate New York.
FACT: Book store clerks at Barnes & Noble make more money per year than most published authors.
Why is this?
I went to Barnes & Noble and bought my first novel. My publisher required that the first edition be in hardback, so it...
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Jul.29.2009
Victor Volkman of Loving Healing Press published my first book, REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse in paperback. He has now decided he wants to release it in hardcover in September. I wish that we had done it in hardcover to begin with. Victor states...
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Jul.15.2009
I went shopping for books yesterday. I had an hour between clients. I fancied a browse.
After half an hour I picked up a book I'd never heard of, 'When You're Falling, Dive'. Then I happened upon a book I'd heard of online - I've 'met' the author, and it had appealed to me. It was the last copy and...
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