Christian Fiction News for the week ending May 1, 2009
Fast Company spotlights HarperStudio, "a new imprint of HarperCollins that's trying to rethink both the format of books and the business model. HarperStudio will publish just two books a month and offer authors 50-50 profit sharing, rather than a traditional 7% to 15% royalty.: Click the link above to read more.
- New York Times also wrote about the new paying system model.
- Gumbo WRiters has a nice interview with Publisher Robert Miller
- And here at CKWebb.com
Jeff Rivera: But what do you mean exactly by a share of profits. Is this a "Hollywood Studio Model" where basically no one ever sees any profits?
Robert Miller: No, it is an actual, true profit share without overhead deductive. What you are talking about is what we call fatal subtraction where there actually ends up being supposedly no profit but this is just simply taking all revenues and deducting all direct cost and splitting the difference, but no overhead.
No CBE in 2010
The Christian Book Expo will not return in 2010, because of restructuring and a supposed $250,000 debt, according to Publisher's Lunch. Sad news. I wrote before that I would not attend here and here because I didn't think the CBE was for my demographic, but didn't think the event would not get the patrons it sought. I hope the debt is cleared and they try it in again in 2011.
Further discussions at:
Further discussions at:
Mother Day Giveaways Online
Looking for some low cost ideas for mom. How about some free gifts for mom on Mother's Day. Check out some of these giveaways:
- Tea Giveaway
- Mom Eco Giveaway
- Mean Mom's Club Book Giveaway
- Bendaroos
- Kodak Wireless Digital Frame
- Trip to Gatlinburg, Tennessee
