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  • Brooke Warner commented on her article Distribution 101
    ...itional distribution. They take a commission in exchange for actively selling their publisher-clients' books to retailers. Ingram Wholesale is fulfillment to bookstores and other retailers. They sell everything from Bi...
  • ...returnable. It's just less frequent and there's no up front buys from retailers because it's just a digital f...tential success. Publishers don't typically want to push back against retailers because saying you want a sma...
  • ...on & Schuster came up with the idea, but the returns system has been around since the Great Depression to keep the industry afloat by giving retailers credit and to help keep books...
  • Cate, to be really clear, the returns "problem" is not customers returning their purchases; it's retailers ordering more than they can ever sell and returning in bulk to distributors w...
  • ...the books for. I totally get what you're saying, that they're underpricing books and therefore maybe seem more attractive than all the the other retailers out there. I've seen these th...
  • ...cost resellers buy the books at? Is it 50%, or lower? I think that's the most important thing. Because if it's 50% then that's the same discount retailers would get, and there's probab...
  • Brooke, thanks for taking the time to clarify...Sounds like asking a potential publisher what their negotiated agreements are with retailers -- esp for ebooks, where there's a wide commission range -- is important.  I haven't published (yet!), so this is really helpful information.  
  • Brooke Warner commented on her article What Are E-Books Worth?
    Kelly, every single publisher has a different deal with these retailers. It varies. But in our case the deal...ges for things like co-op and merchandising. The gist of it is this. Retailers take anywhere from 30%-55% fo...
  • Brooke Warner commented on her article What Are E-Books Worth?
    Yes, Kelly. She Writes Press gives authors 80% of our net profits. So whatever is left over after what the retailers take from us is what we split—80% to the author and 20% to us. In o...
  • ...d people's book-buying habits. Also, you seem to be writing about this from an American or British perspective. Note that there are other ebook retailers out there. For example, Amazo...