That's not building an anthology. I admit it would be less snappy to call it "Perfect bind a bunch of random stories you picked out yourself and own this fake book." Probably not good marketing.
An anthology, properly done, is a more cohesive thing. Its stories fit together in a subtle blending of tone, theme and stuff. Really. I believe that.
From the writer point of view you might get someone to take a chance on your stuff. That would be good.
From the purchaser point of view, it's like a music site offering to burn you a CD with a nice paper insert. In my mind that seems like offering to charge you extra for something you don't really need.
Oh, and, one other thing...obviously the folks who put this up believe that they can make money. They are not paying the authors up front. Author checks don't go out until the royalties due you hit $20. What if that never happens for most of the authors? Theretically, it is possible. If your royalties turn out to be around (as in their example) 15 cents per book sold, then it'll take about 134 books sold before you hit that level. Though it may not sound like it, that's a helluva lot of books.
In other words, part of the business model here has to be the assumption that for a large number of the authors who put work in (the new authors) they will never hit the point where their royalties become due.
If you want to do this, and you really don't care about making money, you just want to find new readers, I'd suggest using something that gives readers access to your work *for free*.
I agree that it's not a proper anthology. If there were some stories that I wanted but didn't have in any collection or antho, though, and they were available there, I might go for it.
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In my arrogance, let me add...
An anthology, properly done, is a more cohesive thing. Its stories fit together in a subtle blending of tone, theme and stuff. Really. I believe that.
From the writer point of view you might get someone to take a chance on your stuff. That would be good.
From the purchaser point of view, it's like a music site offering to burn you a CD with a nice paper insert. In my mind that seems like offering to charge you extra for something you don't really need.
Re: In my arrogance, let me add...
In other words, part of the business model here has to be the assumption that for a large number of the authors who put work in (the new authors) they will never hit the point where their royalties become due.
If you want to do this, and you really don't care about making money, you just want to find new readers, I'd suggest using something that gives readers access to your work *for free*.
Re: In my arrogance, let me add...
Re: In my arrogance, let me add...