While I'm a fan of Baen Webscriptions and looking forward to seeing some other print publishers get the message and start offering e-versions I also buy quite a few ebooks that were written, edited, formatted, designed, and produced as ebooks from the start.
Yes, Edited, and all that other stuff. It makes a difference! And it doesn't come free.
And Distribution? At least 50% of the cost of an ebook goes to distributors now. Granted a few epublishers avoid that by selling only from their own websites (lessee, monthly server fees, merchant accout fees, etc.) but for most of us it is go with Fictionwise, maybe Amazon, and share the profit and hope that our share is enough to pay royalties and cover artists and layout specialists, and so forth. Oh, yeah, it is nice to be able to pay the editors too.
there are also epublishers
Yes, Edited, and all that other stuff. It makes a difference! And it doesn't come free.
And Distribution? At least 50% of the cost of an ebook goes to distributors now. Granted a few epublishers avoid that by selling only from their own websites (lessee, monthly server fees, merchant accout fees, etc.) but for most of us it is go with Fictionwise, maybe Amazon, and share the profit and hope that our share is enough to pay royalties and cover artists and layout specialists, and so forth. Oh, yeah, it is nice to be able to pay the editors too.