Wednesday, June 27, 2012

What Publishing Companies Do in a World Where Anyone Can Publish a Book. From @Forbes

If an author can go to Kindle Direct Publishing or Barnes & Noble’s PubIt!, instantly publish their own book and then collect up to 70% of the sale price as a royalty as opposed to the 15% to 25% that many traditional publishers offer on e-books, why wouldn’t they?

That’s a question that many authors are asking themselves in the e-book era. And publishers are answering it.

Several major book publishers have recently come out with aggressive statements asserting what they do and all the work that goes into publishing a successful book.

So, what do publishers do?  Read on here.....http://wtr.mn/M4Oe2Z

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