Signing tonight at Flights of Fantasy...

I'll be doing a book signing for Grand Central Arena -- including doing a reading from the book -- at Flights of Fantasy at 7:00 .

On the 25th of May I will be doing a signing for Threshold (originally scheduled for May 18th ("Mount Saint Helens Day") but alas it got moved.

E-Book pricing -- My more in-depth analysis...

The Usenet rec.art.sf groups are currently having one of the recurring discussions on pricing of E-books and other related issues.

First, let's look at how Ebooks impact me, today, personally:
Baen is one of the few sane publishers in this respect. I get a much larger percentage of the price of an Ebook than I do of either a hardcover or mass market paperback. The difference is such that for an E-book sale of a novel I get ~$1.50, I think, while for the paperback I get $0.50 or so. For a hardcover, I get $2.50 or so, but the price of a hardcover is much higher. So AT BAEN, the sweet spot where you pay the least and I get the most is the Ebook.

HOWEVER -- businesswise in terms of how much booksellers want to stock my books, the Ebooks don't count much if at all. Hard copy has to sell. If Ebook becomes the dominant business, that will change a lot of things.

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So there you have it, my own off the cuff but, I think, reasonably accurate analysis. EBooks cannot -- if you want to (A) pay the author, and (B) have the work professionally edited, proofread, illustrated, etc. -- be sold for $0.25; but they also shouldn't be going for over $10.00 a pop, either.