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Redefining Net Receipts Where Ebooks Are Concerned

Posted at 5:35PM Friday 05 Mar 2010

The fun of how electronic books are changing the publishing contract continues. Today, boys and girls, we are going to talk about net receipts . . .

In light of this new agency commission model where Amazon and Apple will no longer carry the product per se but have an agreement to sell titles via their site in exchange for a 30% commission on the sale (see earlier post to get up to speed), suddenly agents need to re-examine the whole definition of net receipts in publishing contracts.

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