Book Publishing In Your Nation

[Monetar (Ancient)]

How does Book Publishing operate in your nation? Are rights typically sold in a certain way, a % of profit going to the Publisher for printing costs, or is it automated such that it is independently published or almost exclusively "pure profit" for the writer ( such as online book stores)?

[KludgeMUSH]

Book publishing is typically performed via the Internet. Physical books are regarded as being rather antiquated, not to mention difficult to read in the dark, and so most book sales are accomplished direct-to-author, without the intermediary of a publisher, although printing services exist which will take your purchased book and print it into a physical copy on demand if you desire it.

[Zwangzug]

Authors usually publish through larger publishing houses, and both receive some of the profits.

[H-Alba]

Authors take their book the H-Alba People's Board of Censorship, which first approves of the book. If it is approved they will send the book to the H-Alba People's Board of Publishing. The Author receives 55% of profits, the Board of Publishing (which is a Government Ran Agency) receives 20%, the H-Alba People's Board of Censorship (another government ran agency) receives 20%, and finally the final 5% of profits goes to the National Treasury.

[Free Commonalities]

It is a mix. Printed books are a much smaller market-- mostly coffee table books, books with lots of design, photography, illustration, handcrafting, and art material. Most books are made from recycled paper and designed to be pulped. There is also a small market for mass market paperbacks. 10%

A lot of books have moved online. Most people read electronic books on a universal reading platform, we are PMT so most peopel carry a tablet made of a tye of flexible bioplastic that can be easily folded or rolled up and carried in ones jacket or bag. There are many ebooks. 40%

However, book applications which combine video, print, and simple programs have almost half the market. 50%

[Maraque]

Physical books are a relic of the past, with the only people that have them being book collectors and people that don't want to adapt to the times. Book publishers don't really exist as much, since people can freely sell and advertise their literature online to the masses. Many of our nation's most esteemed writers became famous for their works independently, just releasing their works via an e-book service.

+90% of Tsvarchivan households have two or more e-book readers.

[United Dependencies]

Authors publish through a publishing house with the profits toward the author/house being dependent on who is doing the publishing.

[Gilthador]

Most books are digital, and this has been so for many years now. Books are rare and beautiful antiques, though a few are still printed, usually on hemp or a similar strong and biodegradable material that only grows on our planet called báshkæ. Books are written and then uploaded. Authors will talk about their books online and in person, and they are spread via word of mouth. There is no publishing industry here because it is superfluous. Those few books printed are done by skilled artisans and hobbyists, and comprise mostly copies of old histories, annals, compendiums of various sorts, and blank journals, which are quite popular with the tourists, as báshkæ paper is rather beautiful, resembling somewhat iridescent marble paper.

[Sibirskaya Respublika]

In Sibirskaya, everything is owned by... supposedly the people, but in reality it is by the government. As such, most of what is published is actually propaganda, even if it doesn't appear to be as such; very, very, very few citizens would dare to publish anything even remotely subversive.

As such, though, most of the authors are merely doing their jobs; if they produce enough propaganda, or publish enough, they earn a satisfactory mark by their supervisor. This earns them the necessary things to live (food, new clothes if needed, etc), just as it does for everyone who performs well enough at their jobs, since everything is (supposedly) shared equally among those who help to keep the community running efficiently, with everything necessary to survive. There's no individual wages, or anything people could be shared percentage-wise.

Books are usually published and placed in a public library, with a few copies in each library that requests them so that there are enough copies for people to read at a time. Since the nation is relatively isolated by choice, there's not much of a trade of their books outside of the country, and a lack of government-backed currency inside the country severely limits the amount of copies that can be published, as you can imagine.

People are encouraged to publish on their own if they wish as a hobby; there are free public presses set up in communities scattered across the country for this very purpose. However, due to the long, strenuous workdays and very strict government regulations, very few independent things are published. Most of what does get published are just collection of folktales, or folk songs, or anything that shows the grand and glorious nature of Sibirskaya's cultural background. However, as the presses are free, and writing is seen as a hobby at most, people do not get "paid" anything (either in currency, or extra favours, or extra benefits), and only gain whatever bragging rights can come from it.