Excited to tell you we’ve started publishing books at De Correspondent (more about our platform here). Author Rutger Bregman has written about importance of utopian thinking on our platform and three months ago announced that he wanted to further explore these ideas in a book. We immediately though: why not publishing it ourselves.
So here goes, De Correspondent is now a publishing house too. These are our 4 foundations for publishing books:
- Ebook is 60 percent cheaper than print edition (€18 vs €7);
- Ebook isn’t secured with DRM or any of that nonsense: readers are free to lend books to friends and family (with 85 to 95 percent of Dutch ebooks being illegal copies, it’s obvious that DRM doesn’t work);
- We’ve raised author’s royalties for print edition with 50 percent;
- People can order both editions at our own shop: kiosk.decorrespondent.nl;
Not fluent in Dutch but eager to read a story by Bregman? Read Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone.