APPLE guilty on price fixing

[Ail]

NiKKoM said:

Ail said:

NiKKoM said:
Not good.. Amazon undercuts everyone hurting the writers and publishers.. books have been devalued a lot beause of Amazon.. won't be surprised if some publishers will go down..

That's incorrect.

Amazon hurts publishers it is true.

Amazon is however one of the main reason royalties rate paid to writers  is much higher on e-books than on paper books.

It's a bad assumption to assume everything bad for publishers is bad for writers.  Publisher and writer interests only intersect in the case of big very popular writer.

Thats not true.. its only when you self publish but writers get a higher cut when the ebook price is below 10 bucks.. above it and it's a smaller cut.. If you want more royalty for an Ebook you effectivly are destroying the value of the paper book.. it's a dirty play by Amazon

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9920920/Self-published-authors-hit-by-Amazon-online-royalties-cut.html

 

authors get up to 10% on paperbacks, 15% on hardcovers ( if they sell over 10 000 copies) and typically 25% on e-books.