Sentences with phrase «author royalties go»

Author royalties go to establishing Indigenous youth writers workshops in NWT.

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I thought I had to do because I wanted a separate Amazon author page for my pen name, but was confused because I wanted the royalty money to go into my original account.

And though Borders isn't particularly kind to indies, indie books can be bought for their eReader with a 60 % royalty to the author — only going through Smashwords» distribution channel, of course.

It's the Amazon minimum price they require in order to participate in the 70 % author royalty program and it went into effect last year, thus Konrath's price raises.

In response to literary agents who said no major publisher would ever offer a single royalty rate that brought authors more money than the current standard, Rasenberger said that the goal is to get a conversation going.

Instead, she went directly to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, an online platform for self - publishing with a 70 % royalty rate for authors.

Are authors going to get a larger royalty share?

The publisher makes its agreed upon royalty — which it goes on to divide with the author according to their contract — and the consumer stands to benefit from an all - out price war among the retailers.

Amazon went further, and offered 100 % e-book royalties to authors, enticing them to jump ship and abandon Hachette entirely.

I launched a traditional publishing company with my first book back in 2003 (when «self - publishing» was a bad word), and then went on to publish other authors using a royalty model (authors do not pay for * anything *).

While it's true that not every successful author (indie or otherwise) falls back on a mailing list for promotion, it's a tool that has helped numerous authors go from obscurity to making a living with book royalties.

When the author earns 1/3 of the ebook royalties the publisher does, I'm okay with seeing that publisher go under.

I'm guessing that this is going to make not one iota of difference in the way Samhain pays the authors that it promotes to Samhain Gold; Samhain then gets to send editors to conference (comped)(provided that they take pitches only for the Samhain Gold line), and we have a very simple test for allowing e-publishers: If you believe you can guarantee decent royalties for a good number of authors (although not for all of them), you're in.

I think it was Mark Lawrence who said recently that authors that go through a publishing house looked at the advance as the thing, and that advances usually ran around $ 10,000 or thereabouts, because most books published sell around 500 copies or so, and so you can't depend on getting any royalties over the advance.

As a Kindle Direct (KDP), not Kindle Select (KSP), author, you won't have the option to do Pre-orders on Amazon until Volume III, but at least you can check in on any day, any hour and get not only several different sales and author relative ranks, but go look at your actual sales figures online, including total sales, gross cash intake and net royalties.

If Publisher does not: eBook price: $ 10.00 $ 7.00 received by publisher (after 30 % sales commission to retailer) 25 % of net royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronicroyalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronicRoyalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronic books.

However, for this blog post, I am going to discuss ways to find a traditional publisher who pays an author an advance and / or royalties.

A year ago, I don't think anybody would have predicted that Janklow and Nesbitt were going to make a deal to self - publish books of their best authors whose books were out of print or who wanted to make more money on their royalties.

Publishers won't like it as they watch their established authors jump ship and go indie to seek much higher royalties and better terms.

A debut author is not going to be in the same position and if that debut wants a traditional print publisher on board as well, then they will have to acquiesce to the electronic royalty structure being offered.

Covering everything from how to determine printing costs and calculate royalties to the most up - to - date marketing strategies, The Fine Print of Self - Publishing has become the go - to book for authors considering self - publishing.

That's the question authors are facing now when they try to decide whether or not they want to question their very imaginative royalty reports or if they want to fight to get the rights back to books that should have reverted to them years ago, at least if they were to go by their royalty statements.

It's no less true for an author: selling a book to someone ill - suited to your writing (or even «meh» about it) is great for that 64 cents (the royalty a paperback pays), but not so wonderful, as the reader who feels was ripped off is going to take it out on your reputation (because most readers have no idea how little of that cover price goes to the author.

The signup process may seem intimidating, but an indie author can earn a higher royalty percentage by going direct and not through a distributor / aggregator.

For an overview of ACX royalties, I'm going to rely on this clear and concise description provided by the Author Marketing Institute:

Authors who have earned up to 70 % in royalties are going to be reluctant to agree to a much lower royalty offered by the pbook publisher.

For a mass - market paperback book with a minimum first printing of 25,000 copies, an average return rate of 50 %, an average $ 6.50 cover price, and an average 6 % royalty rate, an author would earn only $ 4,875 on the sales of that book — and 15 % ($ 731.25) of that sum would go directly to the author's agent, leaving the author with a gross (before taxes) profit of $ 4,143.75.

All royalty payments go directly into the author's own accounts, and we never take ownership of their files.

Since neither the advance nor the royalty rate of 7 - 10 % are split with the illustrator, they go fully to the author's share.

They could up and decide they're going to drop the amount of royalties authors receive.

Founder Sebastian Sobczak went so far as to install copyright infringement technology to detect those users who copied and pasted «all - rights - reserved» Google images - disqualifying them from earning any royalties derived from those postings [For more information on this unique social network's monetary model, please see: «Tsū, A New Social Network Pays Indie Authors To Promote Their Work.»]

For authors who have literary agents representing them, the checks go through the agents, who send their checks to the author — royalties minus the agent's percentage.

Regarding royalties, it goes like this: Smashwords Wholesale compensation = 60 % of retail (when sold on sites other than their own) Example: if your eBook is selling for $ 7.95, the author would get $ 4.77.

If the author chooses a combination of self - published hard copies to go along with the digital download, which self - publishing imprint will he select, one that charges up front but awards almost all of the royalties to the writer, or one that does not charge an initial fee but keeps a slightly larger percentage of every sale?

One way that more authors are enticed by forward thinking publishers is that the royalty packages from ebook - only or digital - first publishers are often more lucrative for the authors, given that much of the expensive risk has been eliminated by going digital at the onset.

Once a book is accepted, it goes on to be published by the digital Kindle Press imprint, in exchange for which the author receives 5 - year renewable terms, a $ 1,500 advance, 50 % eBook royalty rate, easy rights reversions, and featured Amazon marketing.

The standardized, lockstep low royalty rates (25 % of net on e-books, 15 % of list on hardcovers, 8 % of list on paperbacks) that traditional publishers offer the vast majority of authors choosing to go that publishing route make calculating author earnings straightforward.

And the daily royalty share going to indies is nearly twice as large as the share going to Penguin Random House authors.

Are the Random House authors going to see a 300 % increase in their royalty checks?

And fewer authors are going to see e-book royalties at all from the library market.

Heneleen Stewart, As the process should work, all income from book sales goes to the publisher, which takes its cut and sends the author their royalty share.

Payment will be done over PAYPAL and the authors are going to get their royalties instantly and not have to wait.

Once the advance has been paid back, the book is said to have «earned out», and all subsequent royalties go to the author.

An author can self - pub a title at ACX and likely will make anywhere from $ 1000 — $ 0, and if it is a royalty share deal half of that goes to the narrator.

Forgo the higher price point and the stronger royalty percentages to satisfy reader desires (and if you do the math, authors earn less money with trade pb until the tipping point), or go for the hardcover, get more support and have a higher chance of earning out that advance (or the greater risk of failure if it doesn't work).

Amazon and B&N have direct publishing programs that are author - friendly with significant royalty percentages paid monthly — I love their deposits going directly into my checking account before the end of the month.

But one thing is clear, as creation tools become more available and authors skill - up with self - promotion via social media and with 70 % royalty, it will seem increasingly tempting to go it alone.

It might be tougher to find talented narrators, but I know authors who have gone this route and they came to terms with very talented narrators to produce their audiobook on a royalty share bases.

Possible third option: I have heard from other authors that they went with a hybrid deal (a fixed amount upfront then a royalty split).

If they're not, then these larger image requirements are going to bite deeply into author royalties.