Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.

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• Michael A. Stackpole:

  I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.

• Michael A. Stackpole:

  If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it.

• Michael A. Stackpole:

  Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.

• Michael A. Stackpole:

  The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make

• Michael A. Stackpole:

  Digital-Original publishing embraces the non-conventional and genre-busting story. It allows me to

• Michael A. Stackpole:

  Digital-Original just shifts the R&D costs for publishing to the authors and affords us the chance

• Michael A. Stackpole:

  Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

• Michael A. Stackpole:

  Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There

• Michael A. Stackpole:

  Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.

• Michael A. Stackpole:

  Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which ga