{"id":3281,"date":"2009-12-08T00:27:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T04:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2015-03-18T23:26:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:26:25","slug":"aside-epub-royalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/08\/aside-epub-royalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside: epub &#038; royalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love how the article&#8217;s author is so sanguine about this aspect of his analysis, dropping it deadpan in a single sentence at the end of the piece: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbiresearch.com\/e-readers-should-drive-profits-for-both-distributors-and-book-publishers-2009-11\">The bad news for authors is that their royalties will decrease since they are based off of retail sales price.<\/a>&#8221; Surely the simplification of the production and distribution system should result in less profit for publisher\/distributor\/vendor&#8211;i.e. the parts of the system simplified&#8211;and not in less profit for the bit that remains just as hard as ever?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I love how the article&#8217;s author is so sanguine about this aspect of his analysis, dropping it deadpan in a single sentence at the end of the piece: &#8220;The bad news for authors is that their royalties will decrease since they are based off of retail sales price.&#8221; Surely the simplification of the production and distribution system should result in&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/08\/aside-epub-royalities\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[331,8],"tags":[334,458,270,265],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-aside","category-books","tag-author","tag-books","tag-corporations","tag-economics","post_format-post-format-aside","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-QV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3282,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}