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____/ Mark Kent on Monday 25 Jan 2010 16:31 : \____
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> Amazon hikes Kindle royalties to 70%, with a catch
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>>| Amazon dropped a bomb on the publishing
>>| world Wednesday morning by announcing a new
>>| royalty program that will allow authors to
>>| earn 70 percent royalties from each e-book
>>| sold, but with a catch or two. The move will
>>| pay participating authors more per book than
>>| they typically earn from physical book sales
>>| so long as they agree to certain conditionsâ
>>| conditions that make it clear that Amazon is
>>| working on keeping the Kindle attractive in
>>| light of upcoming competition. Still,
>>| authors and publishers are split on how good
>>| this deal really is.
>> `----
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>> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/01/some-authors-still-split-on-amazons-70-royalty-offer.ars
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> One day people will look back on the days of paper books as a kind of
> golden age...
You'd have to smuggle text files of books. :-)
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