[toby]

My first thought... when you realize they've been taking 96% as the gatekeepers for so long, Apple's fees don't sound as absurd. With traditional print publishing there is a lot of value add, but with ebooks they're really just choosing winners.

Aside: I have met several people who admitted to downloading my books on torrents, and they gave me the $2 I would have made if they'd bought it :)

[ownagefool]

It's sad that books don't have the equivalent of steam sales. I have so many games I'll never play, because at $2 it seems rude not to but at £30, I gotta think about it.

[pkaye]

A few of the tech oriented publishers have ebook sales on their websites from time to time. Like Apress has $6 per ebook during black friday. Informit was 55% off per ebook book.

[wdb]

Yeah, and the sad part is that the paper copies royalty is different from the ebook copies. And when someone buys your book in bulk or the publisher gives away promotion copies it get counted differently.

Still waiting for hunderds of US dollars worth of royalties :(

[6510]

That's hilarious. I would give you $2 to just keep writing. Sadly the technology is just not there. Everyone is busy welding the next digital prison for popular walled gardens. Building a forest of plastic plants.