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(Also another test of dreamwidth crossposting feature)

From a comment posted in James Nicoll's LJ here.

What I want to know is whether authors are getting more royalties due to there being no way to pass DRM'd e-books on to additional readers the way you can pass on a paper book.

I have my doubts, but if it turned out to be true I would consider getting one of the e-book readers.

(I'm buying as few books as possible because I have absolutely no space left in my house for books. The ones that don't come off my to-read shelf, I get from the library.)

Comments

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to imagine a publishing contract that didn't have a per-copy e-book royalty, and as a publishing contracts manager (currently almost two days behind on LJ), I can't figure out how to structure one.