Comments on: Why is publish with us different?

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By: altotas

altotas — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:16:35 +0000

…and here is another one: (TIME 21 Jan 2009, by Lev Grossamn) (…) Consider the advance system, whereby a publisher pays an author a nonreturnable up-front fee for a book. If the book doesn’t “earn out,” in the industry parlance, the publisher simply eats the cost. Another example: publishers sell books to bookstores on a consignment system, which means the stores can return unsold books to publishers for a full refund. Publishers suck up the shipping costs both ways, plus the expense of printing and then pulping the merchandise. “They print way more than they know they can sell, to kind of create a buzz, and then they end up taking half those books back,” says Sara Nelson, editor in chief of PW. These systems were created to shift risk away from authors and bookstores and onto publishers. But risk is something the publishing industry is less and less able to bear.
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By: altotas

altotas — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:22:54 +0000

Why to publish with Europa Magica / Meditheatre?

Some further considerations:

here is an interesting article (TIME 9 April 2009, by Josh Quittner): (…) Let’s call these start-ups LILOs, for “a little in, a lot out.” These are Web-based businesses that cost almost nothing to get off the ground yet can turn into great moneymakers (if you work hard and are patient, but we’ll get to that part of the story). (…) The term “ramen profitable” was coined by Paul Graham, a Silicon Valley start-up investor, essayist and muse to LILO entrepreneurs. It means that your start-up is self-sustaining and can eke out enough profit to keep you alive on instant noodles while your business gains traction.
Continues: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1890387,00.html