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$1k-2k per month for the back cover of a single book makes me think that the publishing industry should be explosively disrupted. Not sure how exactly, but tha
by ilaksh 6y ago
$1k-2k per month for the back cover of a single book makes me think that the publishing industry should be explosively disrupted. Not sure how exactly, but that is ridiculous.
Here is an idea: a movement towards exclusively epub with open source DRM and cryptocurrency. And local physical stores can just start printing jackets.
- bwb 6y agoWell that includes all the books metadata like cover image, author etc, but ya I agree :). I think part of the problem is that fee to Ingram is for flat files or their API, and you are basically paying them to centralize what they collect from authors.
- throwawayffffas 6y agoI am not a lawyer, but there is no way that using all these things to sell a book is not fair use.
- hampelm 6y agoPossibly, but someone still needs to do the work of the aggregation and QC.