Pricing policies and DRM are the other major areas that need work.
In the near future, finding a decent eBook is going to be a challenge. You write a book, and put it up on a pay website. I want to read an eBook like yours, but have not heard of you. How do you arrange for me to end up buying your book?
If you're in a bookstore and pick up a book by an author you've never heard of, all you've got is the cover art and the publisher. What the publisher does for you the reader is recommend the book with the publishing company's good name. I think future editors/publishers will end up editing as now, but then functioning to recommend a book this way. More or less like a reviewer, but representing the book, as with publishers today. When I buy an eBook, most of what I will pay will hopefully go to the author. But Part of what i pay will go to the publisher, not for making the book available, that's cheap in computerland; but for reading all the slush and selecting what I can expect to be a good book from it.
Which is what the editor/publisher does now, right?
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In the near future, finding a decent eBook is going to be a challenge. You write a book, and put it up on a pay website. I want to read an eBook like yours, but have not heard of you. How do you arrange for me to end up buying your book?
If you're in a bookstore and pick up a book by an author you've never heard of, all you've got is the cover art and the publisher. What the publisher does for you the reader is recommend the book with the publishing company's good name. I think future editors/publishers will end up editing as now, but then functioning to recommend a book this way. More or less like a reviewer, but representing the book, as with publishers today. When I buy an eBook, most of what I will pay will hopefully go to the author. But Part of what i pay will go to the publisher, not for making the book available, that's cheap in computerland; but for reading all the slush and selecting what I can expect to be a good book from it.
Which is what the editor/publisher does now, right?