Tuesday, May 21, 2002

Readers Set the Price. "John Scalzi is relying on readers to determine what his science-fiction e-book is worth. He's offering Agent to the Stars free from his website as shareware and asking for donations through Paypal. He's publicizing his offer with an advertisement at Penny Arcade, a site that's popular with video game fans. In just a few days, more than 1,000 people have downloaded the book and those who have hit the Paypal button have paid on average $3.80 -- almost four times more than the suggested dollar amount the author requests. Authors with New York publishing houses get an average royalty of $2.50 on an e-book sale." [Wired News] More BigCos (in this case, BigPubs) being cut out of the picture (and the profits). [The Shifted Librarian] 1:05:48 PM    trackback []     Articulate []