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Regarding print-on-demand publishing, an author might very well think, "when the publisher has my book, the customers, and their money, what does it need me for
by gradschool 5y ago
Regarding print-on-demand publishing, an author might very well think,
"when the publisher has my book, the customers, and their money, what
does it need me for?". I don't have a solution. I wonder if any
blockchain geniuses could figure something out. Short of that, how
about providing authors an itemized list of all purchases and a clause
in the contract triggering a penalty if the author can prove someone
made a purchase that wasn't listed?
- aswinmohanme 5y agoYes, that might have been an issue with traditional publishing, but here we take 9% per sale, the rest goes to the you, the author.
- gradschool 5y agoMore bluntly then, a publisher (traditional or otherwise) can defraud an author by selling more books than it reports to the author. In addition to your generous margin, a technical or legal means of preventing or disincentivizing you, the publisher, from defrauding an author would make authors more inclined to work with you.
- Chris2048 5y agoI suppose the author could sell from their own website using a code, thereby registering the sale. They could also sell from e.g ebay/amazon etc via the same method: generating a code. So long as sales are via the publishers website, they can absolutely defraud the author, but such is the case for the sale of any digital good. I guess you could setup a "registration" scheme (e.g. to sub to errata) whereby readers need to supply their purchase code, which would reveal extra/double sells.