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How is the deal structured? Per stream, per 'play', per open? What about books that have higher list prices? etc. Existing ebook rights contracts are based on the agency model (70/30 split with retailer, then some portion of the 70 for the publisher and author). What happens in this model? Authors and agents will probably want to hold out for 'streaming' rights as a separate thing, perhaps. Not sure how Oyster and Scribd are structured, but i suspect that one thing limiting the major houses for streaming is contractual question marks.


Scribd/Smashwords is 60% to the author (capped at $12.50) after the customer reads 30% of the book.

http://blog.smashwords.com/2013/12/smashwords-signs-distribu...




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