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eBook piracy
Dec. 1st, 2009 12:26 pmSorry for the double-posting today gang...
I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:
"Fight eBook Piracy"
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/fightebookpiracy?e
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To give you a frame of reference, one of my favorite e-authors discovered nearly 100 of her books on ONE piracy site... that was something like $4,000 + worth of downloads she lost out on. And the website-owner doesn't care.
Some could say "well buy paper then". A different author recently saw the worksheet for her print-books sold on Amazon.com for the 2009 3rd Qtr. Almost 1200 books sold @ $14 each... over $16.5k in sales by amazon... Author?? received $214. Yes, that's right - the AUTHOR made a measley TWO HUNDRED dollars off sales of over SIXTEEN THOUSAND after amazon's 55% cut & the printer's cut, and the publisher's. She gets 10% of the *publisher's* cut. If they'd been purchased from the original publisher - she would have made at least $1100. And if purchased in e-format from the original e-publisher, she'd have seen double that amount (so, $2200).
So paper still doesn't help the author - but combine the two, it's no wonder trash like LKH's Anita Blake series & Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series goes downhill as they go along but they keep writing - cuz sheer numbers are needed to "make it".
Just an FYI for my fellow voracious readers who I know have discussed piracy & plagerism in the past.
I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:
"Fight eBook Piracy"
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/fightebookpiracy?e
---------
To give you a frame of reference, one of my favorite e-authors discovered nearly 100 of her books on ONE piracy site... that was something like $4,000 + worth of downloads she lost out on. And the website-owner doesn't care.
Some could say "well buy paper then". A different author recently saw the worksheet for her print-books sold on Amazon.com for the 2009 3rd Qtr. Almost 1200 books sold @ $14 each... over $16.5k in sales by amazon... Author?? received $214. Yes, that's right - the AUTHOR made a measley TWO HUNDRED dollars off sales of over SIXTEEN THOUSAND after amazon's 55% cut & the printer's cut, and the publisher's. She gets 10% of the *publisher's* cut. If they'd been purchased from the original publisher - she would have made at least $1100. And if purchased in e-format from the original e-publisher, she'd have seen double that amount (so, $2200).
So paper still doesn't help the author - but combine the two, it's no wonder trash like LKH's Anita Blake series & Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series goes downhill as they go along but they keep writing - cuz sheer numbers are needed to "make it".
Just an FYI for my fellow voracious readers who I know have discussed piracy & plagerism in the past.
