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Re: eBooks and eArticles
Of course the E-Book market is full of junk. But so's the printed book market. That's just a fact of life. It's a case of caveat emptor. Would I buy an e-book from Andrew if it was about a topic I'm interested in? Without even reading the flap text, yes. Would I buy the same book from A.N.Other? Probably not.
On the sales potential, since a publisher would let me have only a very small share of the sales income, for me as an author (if money were my object), 100 sales at EUR 10 a shot maybe as valuable as a contract for 10% of the sales revenue with a publisher. More importantly, it would mean I would get to use a lot of pictures from archives for free, rather than having to pay for them (e.g. UK National Archives).
All the best
Andreas
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