Currently looking at ways in which Google is benchmarking its publishing model against Amazon's business plan. Google continues to competently replace the paper world with their various digital substitution methods. Heck, Google folk are so off-the-wall intelligent that they're even replacing old digital substitution methods with new digital substitution techniques; such as, their Google Blogger URLs have essentially replaced the cost associated with purchasing a web domain.
General thought process goes like this (from Chapter 3, "The New Freelance Math" in E-Doc-S):
The math equals a combination of freelance writing and traditional self-publishing.
* The windfall difference between the traditional self-publishing model and an automated edocument sales platform can be defined by stating that you normally must use a portion of your profits to reprint books — whereas, with edocuments — you do not.
* The big change in so far as freelance revenue — with reference to old freelance math — is that instead of receiving a one-time freelance fee — a few hundred dollars for the sale of a thousand-word article to a magazine, for example — the writer receives royalties.
The royalties-versus-fee marvel may be explained by noting that as an edocument publisher you fill in for or replace the following publishing roles, functions or printing supplies:
* Author.
* Cover designer; but only if you think you need a cover for your edocument.
* Content editor.
* Copy editor.
* Typesetter; computers and software accomplish this for you.
* Printer, paper, and ink; although there is nothing to print unless the reader opts to print something.
* Binder; the need for this is eliminated.
* Publisher; this is just a description of the entire process.
* Sales representative; this position is eliminated.
* Distributor; with assistance provided by your edocument file Web host.
* Warehouse and bookstore owner; figuratively, of course.
* Reviewer.
* Advertising agency.
* Bookkeeper.
* Secretary.
Wild, huh?
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