E-books

Yes, you could write your next book as an e-book and sell it here!  Cut out all the rigmarole and middle-people; and get a decent return on your labour!  As an experienced writer and editor, I will be doing exactly that with my own book on The Sociology of Deviance, in English and Spanish. Just contact me here directly if you want to discuss doing the same - at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   Instead of getting a 10% royalty for doing 90% of the work, why not get an 80% royalty for doing 80% of the work? 

Also why not publish a shorter, downloadable, digital text here, say between 5,000 and 20,000 words, and sell it through CrimeTalk. You write in Word as usual and we convert it and sell it in pdf format. The product price can be kept very low and you get the bulk of the revenue. You may well find that your return on a number of essays or research papers is better than on a full book published in the traditional way.

In today's world, you do not necessarily get more quality for less return from academic/scientific journals - you may get less quality by way of comments and editing. Too often you get little back, and too often you did all the marketing, in what is essentially a feudal system of scientific publishing to fit a feudal university system. Now both those systems are being 'modernized' and whilst capitalism has its problems it is an advance over feudalism.

So, do consider publishing and selling your books and research essays here on CrimeTalk. They will be archived safely for ever and will never be out-of-print or unavailable because the journal has been 'cut back' - and always their publication is under your control.

Read the article below from The Guardian and the comments on it to consider the enormous rise in e-book sales and the pros and cons of e-book readers. Of course, most scholars and students can and do read many digitized materials on their desktop or laptop computers, and no-one wants to do away with books and hard copy anyway!  The point is about control and fairness.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/19/amazon-waterstones-ebook-sales

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