Ebooks
The other day I was reviewing my book contract (a lengthy document of 8.5x14 inch papers). I happened to notice that the royalty rate on ebooks is much more generous than that applied to hardcover or paperback copies sold. Wow, I thought. Better royalties. But who buys ebooks?
Relevance then kicked in. Because I was thinking about the format I noticed when my novel began popping up in ebook form, whether it be for the Kindle, the Microsoft reader or the Mobipocket.
But lo! It seems that there are plenty of stores selling the ebook format, even brick and mortar stores that I would have expected wouldn't (given the whole brick and mortar thing). Amazon has a separate ranking for its Kindle books. I myself, late adopter to technology that I am, have never read an ebook. I am a bound-paper kind of reader. But I'm beginning to suspect there are more folks reading books and newspapers and what have you on the electronic device of their choice than I had thought. And to these people I say this: buy my ebook! Because those royalty rates are nothing to sneeze at friends.