Some time ago, Gramedia has launched a website Gramediana on the sidelines of the Kompas Gramedia Fair 2013. Gramediana is an online marketplace for the publication of Indonesia. For now, Gramediana only provide e-commerce facilities for visitors who want to buy ebooks and works that you want printed on demand. This is very similar NulisBuku.com, a startup that pioneered online self-publishing in Indonesia.

Simply put, Gramediana provide a community platform and market for publishers, authors, and readers. Gramediana expected to be a complete ecosystem for the publishing industry. During the launch period, the site only offers digital books, which can be read on desktop and mobile devices.

Taking the example of Amazon, Gramediana also provide affiliate links. For members who choose to become an affiliate, they will receive a gift, provided they succeed in persuading others to join your site or buy a book from the site. It certainly can be helped spur book sales rapidly.

According to available information on the website, the author will receive 50% of the profit from digital books and 10% of the sales of printed books. The price of printed books tend to be higher because of the price of ebooks are usually set at 75% of the print version.

Maybe there are a few startups that follow the model of NulisBuku.com, but for large-scale publishers like Kompas Gramedia publishing model of this kind can be more profitable, both for publishers, authors, and readers.

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