GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain

Re:GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain by avaku on Monday March 16, 2015 @07:13AM (#9210829)

20% royalty is really large

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Re:GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain by mandlar on Monday March 16, 2015 @08:59AM (#9211123)

Couldn't you technically take the output of GitBook and publish to each service (Amazon, Google Books, iTunes, etc) yourself? It seems you are only paying for the convenience of them doing it for you.

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Re:GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain by rdsnsca on Monday March 16, 2015 @08:04AM (#9210962)

Then tell us the name of a publisher that takes less.

Bet there isn't one, the next would be a tie between Apple and Amazon at 30 %.

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Re:GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain by sufflo2 on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:01AM (#9211134)

If they publish to those places, then I think this is 20% on top of the publisher's 30% though? So that's 50% of your revenue.

Please correct me if I'm missing something.

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Re:GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain by ze_dude on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:09AM (#9211173)

Leanpub.com lets you keep roughly 90% and the publishing process is quite painless

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Re:GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain by danellis on Monday March 16, 2015 @08:57AM (#9211114)

softcover.io pays 90%.

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