on The Book Designer:
Distributor/aggregator PublishDrive has shifted completely to a subscription-based model for all new accounts.
Up until this month, the New York-based company offered both monthly subscriptions — where all royalties received from retailers were passed along to the publisher — and the more traditional model, in which the aggregator took a 10% cut of every sale.
In the past, there were essentially three ways that ebook aggregators have made money:
