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Once e-books are widespread enough, your favorite author could go solo, sell for less, and still make more money. And you'd get the book you want.
by MikeCapone 17y ago
Once e-books are widespread enough, your favorite author could go solo, sell for less, and still make more money. And you'd get the book you want.
- petercooper 17y agoCan you even imagine how much money J K Rowling could make if she hired a few people to run a self publishing outfit and then sold her latest scrawl on the App Store and iBookstore at $9.99 a pop? Not that she needs any more money at this point, of course..
- dagw 17y agoHonesty. I think she'd make less money than going the traditional way. JK Rowling is big enough to basically make up her own terms and browbeat her publisher into accepting it.
- tghw 17y agoI love the idea of the little guy doing it without a big publisher. The problem with that idea is the same problem that any indie artist has had: exposure. Publishers spend between 1 and 3 million dollars on a new book just for production (editors, graphic designers, typesetters, etc.) and marketing. JK Rowling very much benefited from those dollars. Editors helped her shape her work into books millions of people would love and marketers made sure that the world heard about it. She would not be the woman she is today (financially speaking) without those up-front costs. At this point in her career, you're probably right, she could self publish and do pretty well. But if the later Harry Potter books (where she had more editorial control) are any indication, she's much better off under the guide of a strict editor.