One fascinating if unresolved Digital Book World panel was Wednesday’s session on Changing Author-Publisher Relationships, moderated by Simon Lipskar at Writers House. It provided an update on various publishers’ efforts to engage more actively with their authors on a regular basis and better communicate the value that large-scale organizations bring to representing authors’ work in the marketplace. The financial aspects of the relationship were addressed only briefly. Random House president of sales, operations and digital Madeline McIntosh said that in a review of their “actual effective payout to authors” looking at a five-year set of their fiction lines, a range […]
