The company has seven books published and four more coming soon, including a new novel, Thanksgiving, from author Ellen Cooney, who has previously been published by Random House and other big trade houses.
Publerati is based not on a traditional book publisher's financial model but is instead structured like an agency: "I'm only taking 10 percent of proceeds." Mason keeps the book prices low ($2.99 for most), but "even with a $5 book they make the same amount of money they make with a traditional print contract." Then, like a literary agency, he will seek to sell other rights to other publishers, for example, for the print edition. In addition, Publerati donates a portion of its proceeds to literacy organization Worldreader, which provides free ereaders to children and teachers across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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