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E-books are eco! Do authors have
as much control, however, when pro-
grammers access the numbers first? |
With most book sellers, including
Createspace, authors are limited as to the prices they are able to set for their e-books; although, few costs are involved in getting an e-book out to readers who've purchased them. An e-book's cost to the platform which sells them, may include server storage, data transfer, and download costs which are usually determined by the megabyte and deducted from the royalties given to authors. A fee of 13 cents per megabyte by the platform results in a 65 cent deduction from an author's royalties per e-book in sales for a 5MB book - usually over 200 pages. This is rather inexpensive, and the best part is there isn't any shipping involved, binding, or printing. What this means for the planet is less fossil fuels are required, less tree matter, and fewer chemicals in things like book binder's glue.
It's a green reading experience, but, when author's receive their fair share, it isn't a job reducing enterprise. In fact, the more lucrative the e-book publishing experience becomes, the more jobs develop out of that experience. Authors can afford to hire book cover designers, book trailer artists, and landing page techies. Professional freelance editors would be more in demand as well as page designers and marketers like
TweetYourBooks. In fact, every angle in the marketing process from analytics like
Gigalerts to public relations like
PRWeb do better when online authors do better at earning royalties for a job well-done.
