E Books Victoria 2011
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My presentation to the Federation of BC Writers for \'Wired Words\' - the writers\' experience with e-books
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E Books Victoria 2011
- 1. What E-books mean for writersLorne Daniel
- 2. What E-books mean for writers What’s happening? Why does it matter? The new world of publishing How can writers react? What won’t change Things to think about
- 4. greatest challenge since 19th century excuse to pay writers even less digital publishing creates expectation of free content devalues writers
- 6. 1 million e-books 5 months $.99 to $3.99 a download every 7 seconds and now…
- 7. Who is right? Yay! Nay!
- 8. This guy is right
- 14. Why does it matter? You want readers You want income You are small; global business trends are big
- 15. How e-books are changing publishing
- 17. more direct connection two-way interaction faster But of course… who does all the work? what are the economics?
- 18. Show me the money
- 19. Lower cost, higher royalty Traditional: $20 book 10% royalty to author $2 per book E-book: $3 book 70% royalty to author $2.10 per book
- 20. Changing the reading experience
- 22. One writer’s experience Sells 6 books / day Very active in ‘indie book’ community Targets Amazon & Smashwords markets “Market won’t come to you” Agents starting to call… Rachel Thompson
- 24. A publisher’s perspective No longer ‘vanity’ only stigma royalties Less control of format for author & publisher Don’t forget lovers of paper books Marketing platform a necessity
- 25. How can writers respond?
- 26. 3 guesses about the future Reading won’t disappear Paper books won’t disappear (after all, we still have radio…) Writers won’t disappear
- 27. Things for writers to think about Contracts & royalties Self-publishing options Digital rights (DRM)
- 29. Markets / e-readers Formats
- 31. writing editing cover design layout typography pricing outlets reviews publicity readings
- 35. Lorne Daniel http://lornedaniel.com/blog Twitter.com/LorneDaniel Facebook.com/pages/Lorne-Daniel
Editor's Notes
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----note "pocketbooks" are segment hardest hitpresentation from one learner to another
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----Graham Swift - winner of Booker for Last Orders
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----other criticisms he didn't add - including corporate control
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----John Locke
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----John LockeGraham Swift
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----e-books will even change the used book marketpocketbooks will virtually disappear
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----graph shows sales of readers
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----Christmas 2010 was a tipping point
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----graph shows sales trend lines - increasingly vertical
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----reading is upoverall sales are up
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----but sectors are struggling and it's not "business as usual"
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----sketch of me examining the proofs of my first book
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----traditional process - and could add many others
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----reality is e-books sales are all over the map - with no logicno obvious tie between production cost and retail cost
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----e-book experience will continue to improve
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----Kerouac's On The Roadshow my iPad
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----agents say she needs to be in the "few hundred sales per month" category to interest traditional publishers
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----find your tribeor start your tribe
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----Friesen Press - offshoot of long time high quality printing press Friesen Printing in Manitoba
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----can ignore trendscan freek out and protestcan embrace the change
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----again: sectors within the book market will be radically changed
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-09 14:07) -----different rate for e-booksbased on retail not netwhen rights revert to writer----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----see my blog post for more
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----Amazon has much larger share of e-book market than paper marketKobo (Chapters)iBooks (Apple)
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----many how-to guides and services out thereSmashwords probably most prominentDavid Weedmark
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----need to find your balancefrom complete D-I-Y to reliance on traditional publisher
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----my point on the spectrum - wanted to get a new Selected Poems to market quickly because older books are out of printLulu - not officially released yet
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----Challenges of page layout on e-readers where reader is able to change font size etcline breaks look entirely randomthere are work-arounds
- ----- Meeting Notes (11-09-10 08:01) -----the paper copy still feels great in the handironically, the paper copy was ready first