Well, if the Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller List is any indication, consumers say one thing and do another.
The Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller List is powered by Iobyte Solutions, a firm that deals with such data.
FORBES: Big Publishers, High Prices Dominate E-Book Best-Sellers
To make a business-book best-seller list, a title doesn't need to sell as many copies as in other, bigger categories, like general fiction and nonfiction.
Wait for You went on sale in late Feb. and hit the No. 1 spot on the Digital Book World Ebook Best-Seller list on March 10, a first for a self-published book.
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An established brand in its own right, Sex and the City is cosmopolitan - its cocktail of choice as well as the lifestyle celebrated in the newspaper column turned best-selling book turned blockbuster television series turned A-list film.
The book needs a pull-out list of the dramatis personae organised by Christian name.
"The deal points are confidential but it is essentially consistent with the agreements we have with other authors and literary agencies for their back-list e-book rights, " said Stuart Applebaum, a spokesman for Random House.
It hit the No. 1 spot again on the ebook best-seller list this week, another first for a self-published book.
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The book will still be available to older students, but it was removed from the 6th-grade reading list because one parent found a paragraph in the book that he believed was insulting and denigrating to Mormons, and young children should not be introduced to the religion through the book.
"That book hit the New York Times best-seller list, " Mr. Rudin boasted.
By assuming responsibility for the roles once played by publishers, authors are earning up to 70% of the list price as their e-book royalty versus the 17.5% paid by traditional publishers.
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Particularly for mid-list authors the burden of writing and marketing a book a year without much assistance can be crushing.
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Time to relax by the pool with a good book -- though, judging by what's on your reading list this year, perhaps it's time to go for the anonymity of an e-reader.
And it seems that we would be agreeable to a division of proceeds based on the list price of the book within a range of 45-55% (depending entirely on the negotiating power of the author and what they think they bring to the table that deserves more) of the list price for the author?
Our new list, which we believe is superior to e-book best-seller lists compiled by the New York Times and USA Today, showed that to be untrue.
FORBES: Big Publishers, High Prices Dominate E-Book Best-Sellers
The most articulate and powerful of the finger-pointers was author John Steinbeck, whose book The Grapes of Wrath had not only leapt onto the best-seller list after its publication in April but was also well on its way to becoming seared into the public's imagination forever.
The list is compiled using sales rankings from five of the largest book-sellers (Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Sony and Google).
FORBES: Big Publishers, High Prices Dominate E-Book Best-Sellers
The story goes that Andy's mother-in-law created a "little green book" over the years, which had her list of top service providers in Seattle.
They want to control everything themselves: the content, design, marketing of their book and most importantly the division of royalties, since instead of the 10-15 percent of list price publishers pay, an author can receive 70 percent or more of list price and make a lot more money.
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