The fiasco that is e-books
Two excellent articles on the nitty gritty (aka horror) involved in publishing and distributing e-Books:
- Why Do eBooks Cost So Much (A Publisher’s Perspective) by Michael Hyatt, Chairman & CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers. Hyatt boils this really complicated topic down to some really simple math that consumers can understand.
- On ebooks: A Publisher’s View of the Digital Transformation by Dominique Raccah, CEO of Sourcebooks. This is a really detailed description and analysis of day to day operations involved in eBook conversions, metadata, QC, and tons of other stuff I am actively trying to forget about at this point.
