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
E Books Victoria 2011
- 1. What E-books mean for writersLorne Daniel
- 2. What E-books mean for writersWhats happening?Why does it matter?The new world of publishingHow can writers react?What wont changeThings to think about
- 4. greatest challenge since 19th centuryexcuse to pay writers even lessdigital publishing creates expectation of free contentdevalues writers
- 6. 1 million e-books5 months$.99 to $3.99a download every 7 secondsand now
- 8. This guy is right
- 14. Why does it matter?You want readersYou want incomeYou are small; global business trends are big
- 15. How e-books are changing publishing
- 17. more direct connectiontwo-way interactionfasterBut of coursewho does all the work?what are the economics?
- 18. Show me the money
- 19. Lower cost, higher royaltyTraditional:$20 book10% royalty to author$2 per bookE-book:$3 book70% royalty to author$2.10 per book
- 20. Changing the reading experience
- 22. One writers experienceSells 6 books / dayVery active in indie book communityTargets Amazon & Smashwords marketsMarket wont come to youAgents starting to callRachel Thompson
- 24. A publishers perspectiveNo longer vanity onlystigma royaltiesLess control of format for author & publisherDont forget lovers of paper booksMarketing platform a necessity
- 25. How can writers respond?
- 26. 3 guesses about the futureReading wont disappearPaper books wont disappear (after all, we still have radio)Writers wont disappear
- 27. Things for writers to think aboutContracts & royaltiesSelf-publishing optionsDigital rights (DRM)
- 31. writing editing cover design layout typography pricing outlets reviews publicity readings
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