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An EQ Question
Oct. 27th, 2006 03:45 pmDoes there exist online a chart of our current best guess at to what Encephalization Quotient has been doing over the last 360 million years?
Oct. 27th, 2006
An EQ Question
Oct. 27th, 2006 03:45 pmDoes there exist online a chart of our current best guess at to what Encephalization Quotient has been doing over the last 360 million years?
An EQ Question
Oct. 27th, 2006 03:45 pmDoes there exist online a chart of our current best guess at to what Encephalization Quotient has been doing over the last 360 million years?
If Canadian readers are feeling bored
Oct. 27th, 2006 05:27 pmThey should all write letters to Chapters, pointing out that as long as US publishers continue to price books in Canada as though the exchange rate was still what it was six years ago, there's precious little reason to buy books from a Canadian bricks and mortar store. Buying direct from the US in US dollars is _much_ cheaper.
Although....
If Canadians buy 10% of the books sold in Nearctica and are paying 1.25x US prices (once the actual exchange is taken into account), Canadian readers are disproportionately profitable to someone between the publisher and the bookseller [1]. A US sale of a $7 US book probably includes the publisher getting about $2.80, the distributor about $1.40 and the bookseller about %2.80 (I think). If you sell that book in Canada, the price probably works out to about $10.00 US. I wonder who gets that extra $3?
1: Say, are royalties to the authors based on the US price only?
Although....
If Canadians buy 10% of the books sold in Nearctica and are paying 1.25x US prices (once the actual exchange is taken into account), Canadian readers are disproportionately profitable to someone between the publisher and the bookseller [1]. A US sale of a $7 US book probably includes the publisher getting about $2.80, the distributor about $1.40 and the bookseller about %2.80 (I think). If you sell that book in Canada, the price probably works out to about $10.00 US. I wonder who gets that extra $3?
1: Say, are royalties to the authors based on the US price only?
If Canadian readers are feeling bored
Oct. 27th, 2006 05:27 pmThey should all write letters to Chapters, pointing out that as long as US publishers continue to price books in Canada as though the exchange rate was still what it was six years ago, there's precious little reason to buy books from a Canadian bricks and mortar store. Buying direct from the US in US dollars is _much_ cheaper.
Although....
If Canadians buy 10% of the books sold in Nearctica and are paying 1.25x US prices (once the actual exchange is taken into account), Canadian readers are disproportionately profitable to someone between the publisher and the bookseller [1]. A US sale of a $7 US book probably includes the publisher getting about $2.80, the distributor about $1.40 and the bookseller about %2.80 (I think). If you sell that book in Canada, the price probably works out to about $10.00 US. I wonder who gets that extra $3?
1: Say, are royalties to the authors based on the US price only?
Although....
If Canadians buy 10% of the books sold in Nearctica and are paying 1.25x US prices (once the actual exchange is taken into account), Canadian readers are disproportionately profitable to someone between the publisher and the bookseller [1]. A US sale of a $7 US book probably includes the publisher getting about $2.80, the distributor about $1.40 and the bookseller about %2.80 (I think). If you sell that book in Canada, the price probably works out to about $10.00 US. I wonder who gets that extra $3?
1: Say, are royalties to the authors based on the US price only?
If Canadian readers are feeling bored
Oct. 27th, 2006 05:27 pmThey should all write letters to Chapters, pointing out that as long as US publishers continue to price books in Canada as though the exchange rate was still what it was six years ago, there's precious little reason to buy books from a Canadian bricks and mortar store. Buying direct from the US in US dollars is _much_ cheaper.
Although....
If Canadians buy 10% of the books sold in Nearctica and are paying 1.25x US prices (once the actual exchange is taken into account), Canadian readers are disproportionately profitable to someone between the publisher and the bookseller [1]. A US sale of a $7 US book probably includes the publisher getting about $2.80, the distributor about $1.40 and the bookseller about %2.80 (I think). If you sell that book in Canada, the price probably works out to about $10.00 US. I wonder who gets that extra $3?
1: Say, are royalties to the authors based on the US price only?
Although....
If Canadians buy 10% of the books sold in Nearctica and are paying 1.25x US prices (once the actual exchange is taken into account), Canadian readers are disproportionately profitable to someone between the publisher and the bookseller [1]. A US sale of a $7 US book probably includes the publisher getting about $2.80, the distributor about $1.40 and the bookseller about %2.80 (I think). If you sell that book in Canada, the price probably works out to about $10.00 US. I wonder who gets that extra $3?
1: Say, are royalties to the authors based on the US price only?
I just got a package from one of my Bookspan employers. It was unusually light, even for a bound galley. On close examination, the bound galley just under 180 pages.
My reaction on opening the envelope was "Oh, it's so cute!"
There's nothing wrong with a short book. When I wrote up an (abandoned) fake review for HAMSIN, I commented that it came from the days when three novellas could make a novel, unlike today, when three thick novels might contain a novella between them.
My reaction on opening the envelope was "Oh, it's so cute!"
There's nothing wrong with a short book. When I wrote up an (abandoned) fake review for HAMSIN, I commented that it came from the days when three novellas could make a novel, unlike today, when three thick novels might contain a novella between them.
I just got a package from one of my Bookspan employers. It was unusually light, even for a bound galley. On close examination, the bound galley just under 180 pages.
My reaction on opening the envelope was "Oh, it's so cute!"
There's nothing wrong with a short book. When I wrote up an (abandoned) fake review for HAMSIN, I commented that it came from the days when three novellas could make a novel, unlike today, when three thick novels might contain a novella between them.
My reaction on opening the envelope was "Oh, it's so cute!"
There's nothing wrong with a short book. When I wrote up an (abandoned) fake review for HAMSIN, I commented that it came from the days when three novellas could make a novel, unlike today, when three thick novels might contain a novella between them.
I just got a package from one of my Bookspan employers. It was unusually light, even for a bound galley. On close examination, the bound galley just under 180 pages.
My reaction on opening the envelope was "Oh, it's so cute!"
There's nothing wrong with a short book. When I wrote up an (abandoned) fake review for HAMSIN, I commented that it came from the days when three novellas could make a novel, unlike today, when three thick novels might contain a novella between them.
My reaction on opening the envelope was "Oh, it's so cute!"
There's nothing wrong with a short book. When I wrote up an (abandoned) fake review for HAMSIN, I commented that it came from the days when three novellas could make a novel, unlike today, when three thick novels might contain a novella between them.
Writer's Beware reports on The International Independent Literary Agents Association and it's never a good sign when WB feels the need to report on literary agents.
What most of the agents in the IILAA have in common is a lack of actual sales, although they seem to have fee charging down. They are also oddly hostile to watchdog organizations like Writers Beware. I wonder why?
What most of the agents in the IILAA have in common is a lack of actual sales, although they seem to have fee charging down. They are also oddly hostile to watchdog organizations like Writers Beware. I wonder why?
Writer's Beware reports on The International Independent Literary Agents Association and it's never a good sign when WB feels the need to report on literary agents.
What most of the agents in the IILAA have in common is a lack of actual sales, although they seem to have fee charging down. They are also oddly hostile to watchdog organizations like Writers Beware. I wonder why?
What most of the agents in the IILAA have in common is a lack of actual sales, although they seem to have fee charging down. They are also oddly hostile to watchdog organizations like Writers Beware. I wonder why?
Writer's Beware reports on The International Independent Literary Agents Association and it's never a good sign when WB feels the need to report on literary agents.
What most of the agents in the IILAA have in common is a lack of actual sales, although they seem to have fee charging down. They are also oddly hostile to watchdog organizations like Writers Beware. I wonder why?
What most of the agents in the IILAA have in common is a lack of actual sales, although they seem to have fee charging down. They are also oddly hostile to watchdog organizations like Writers Beware. I wonder why?