Candice Hughes
author of thrillers
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Dec13
Should Publishers Pay Authors More? (competing with Amazon)
Filed under: Publication, publishing industry, Selling Your Novel; Tagged as: advance, Amazon, author, authors, candice hughes, e-book, e-books, publishing, publishing industry, publishing industry trends, royaltiesComments OffI’m well into the pre-Holiday crunch time. But just wanted to take a minute to point out an interesting (but rather long) post on author payments. In this post, the author argues that traditional publishers can afford to and should pay authors more for their work. This would then better compensate authors and discourage them from defecting to Amazon where pay is better. Will anyone take his advice? Time will tell…
http://www.idealog.com/blog/paying-authors-more-might-be-the-best-economics

