Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Electronic-Books”
New Revenue Models
While listening to The Command Line Podcast a few weeks ago, they started talking about how digital distribution allows for innovations in publishing. I don’t remember what they mentioned exactly, but the prior link should take you to the show notes. The talk started a series of synapses firing in my grey matter culminating in the following idea - what about a subscription model for authors. Right now it sucks to be an author in that your pay is very irregular. I know that my paycheck will be the same week to week. But authors get an advance for a book and then some royalties depending upon how well a book sells. So they can’t really plan their finances easily because they don’t know ahead of time how many books they will sell. But, with digital distribution, it might be easier to sell the author’s readers on a subscription model.