J.R.McHale

Get your e-book on the iPad (and keep all the royalties): “Tunecore has been a boon for musicians … . who pay the Brooklyn-based company a flat fee of $40 or so and then see their music available for sale on Amazon, iTunes, and eMusic. The copyrights all remain in the artists’ hands, as do the revenues; after paying the flat fee, 100 percent of the payout returns to the artists. (The digital stores take their cut first, of course.) Today, Tunecore announced that it would extend this model to e-books through a service called Bibliocore. After an upfront payment, the e-book is delivered to Apple’s iBookstore, rights remain with the author, and Bibliocore takes no cut of the royalties.”