Re(9): Help with eBooks, please Posted on 5/23/2012 at 04:29:53 AM by Alan Gordon
Hi Jean,
Your idea sounds pretty reasonable and logical to me, giving it some time to see how sales trend and then if there's any reasonable level of revenue, share among the parties.
If authors don't update you with their current e-mail address, you could either just delete their story from any e-book version of the particular anthology, or just post a notice to them on this forum, giving them 30 or 60 days to respond or forfeit any royalty claim. Just a couple of possibilities to mull over.
I do think you'll do pretty well in trying e-books sales, as the younger readers gravitate more to that format. A lot of 20 and 30-something readers here in Central Massachusetts ask me about e-book versions of the Whortleberry anthologies and I just tell them that the books will eventually be in e-book format, also. I think with all of us pitching-in on marketing via our webpages, blogs, social networks, Facebook, etc., Whortleberry e-book sales will find a decent footing. -Alan