How to Make Money with Private Label E-book Resell Rights

If you were to purchase an ebook with resell rights and the person you buy from asks but does not require that a 20% gratuity be paid to them for every sale you make, is that legal? And is it still legal if every person reselling it asks for, but does

A: Yes, it's legal to ask. They could ask you to come paint their house and it would be legal.

This is not very different from a royalty. The only difference is that it voluntary, and not mandatory. If it was mandatory, you would have no choice

Scott Turow on why we should fear Amazon

Money with the agency model, so why have they insisted on it? The change was designed to limit the growing dominance of Amazon over American book retailing. On Monday, Scott Turow — the bestselling author of “Presumed Innocent” and other legal thrillers, and the president of the Authors Guild — posted a letter to members on the Guild’s web site. In it, he pronounced the Justice Department’s actions bad news for authors, “grim news for everyone who cherishes a rich literary culture,” and (contrary to first impression) ominous for book consumers. I called him up to find out more.

What are some of the Guild’s problems with Amazon?

First of all, so that I don’t get dismissed as an ingrate, I should say that Amazon has been a boon for bestselling authors. Authors get paid on the basis of the cover price for a hardcover book. By discounting, which is something that chain stores started and Amazon continued, they have lowered the barriers to book buying in ways that have been personally extremely beneficial to me.

Source: Salon

Creative Ways to Raise Your eBook Profits – Internet Marketing

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