8 June 2015
One of my key takeaways from conversations and panels at BEABookExpo America, commonly referred to within the book publishing industry as BEA. The largest annual book trade fair in the United States is the necessary degree of paranoia that publishers feel as they face new selling models in a digital world. The bottom line at the panel on subscription offers is that publishers and authors make the same amount if their book is read as part of a subscription offering that they do if it is bought as an individual title. So the question becomes, why would anyone care which approach is used?