WalrusInk ePublishing

Category: The Walrus Said

  • eBooks and Revenue Sharing—50/50 or bust!

    I’ve been reading the “Tools of Change for Publishing” LinkedIn group discussion for some months and felt compelled to respond to a recent thread started by Steve Weiss at O’Reilly: Who else is ready to consider to match the 50% royalty model? We at WalrusInk ePublishing are going with a 50% revenue-sharing model. (The old vocabulary…

  • Pricing eBooks—Logical Assumptions Need Not Apply

    There’s really no consistent logic to how eBooks are currently priced. Publishers want prices higher to increase profit margins. Amazon wants prices lower to encourage increased sales volume. Apple wants prices more standardized, because that’s just the way Apple does things. There have been reports of eBook editions selling for higher prices than printed editions,…

  • Who do you Trust?

    An Essay on The Transformation of Trust in a Multivariate Universe Trust is a cudgel. It’s not meant to be, or at least it isn’t defined as such. But in a world of hidden agendas, hierarchies, and group-think, “trust” has become a keyword for submission, subservience, and general me-too-ism. Here’s how it works in this…

  • WalrusInk Manifesto!

    WalrusInk is an independent ePublishing company with an emphasis in technology and including anything we find interesting written by authors we enjoy working with, including fiction. We will be distributing our eBooks* through all available venues, including iBooks, Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Safari Online, and wherever fine eBooks are downloaded. We will also make Print-On-Demand versions…