A right royal battle.

The article discusses the royalties imposed on electronic books in the U.S. Random House chief executive officer (CEO) Gail Rebuck proposed a royalty of 15% of net receipts on digital sales. Producing e-books still has many of the costs associated with print publishing such as advances, editorial, s...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Bookseller no. 5328; pp. 30 - 32
Main Author:	Tivnan, Tom
Format:	Article
Published:	Bookseller Media Ltd 4/18/2008
Subjects:	Royalties (Copyright) Electronic books Author-publisher relations Publishing United States
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article discusses the royalties imposed on electronic books in the U.S. Random House chief executive officer (CEO) Gail Rebuck proposed a royalty of 15% of net receipts on digital sales. Producing e-books still has many of the costs associated with print publishing such as advances, editorial, sales, marketing, promotion and publicity. Agents and authors are far from convinced about the necessity of the lower royalty rates for digital than print that are being put forward by some publishers.