Sentences with phrase «indie authors royalties»

And will be flushing the Indie authors royalties down the tube along with their VC money.

Not exact matches

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.

Royalty rates are considerably higher as an Indie author.

Numerous Traditional Authors have left traditional houses because they get tired of being jerked around and only getting a small cut of their royalties while indies either get ALL their royalties if they self publish, or a far larger portion of their royalties if they publish through an indie house.

It is NOT easy being an indie author, and you are NOT guaranteed a royalty check!

As soon as he receives $ 5000 in royalties s / he also has the one additional right to vote for the Guild Board, which is the only thing that changes between the Authors Guild of America membership when entering at the $ 500 level or at the $ 5000 for Indie Authors.

As an indie author myself, I'd prefer people pay enough for my books that I get a decent royalties, that means I control the pricing on my books.

An indie author does not take the time to learn how to maximize royalties, compare service options, or do the research necessary to ensure the book has the best chances out there in a ferocious marketplace.

Waiting around for 45days, letting our income plummet in the meantime, is not a viable option for our businesses or a logical in a proactive environment and to suggest we wait and see is harmful to every indie author who need their royalties to survive.

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.

I was disgusted to see some indie authors shrug their shoulders at the royalty change, arguing it was too high for us to expect it to stay there and Amazon was being too generous.

What if those same stores react by dropping royalty rates (I know I wouldn't be making a living on ebook sales alone if Amazon suddenly decided to give indie authors 20 % instead of 70 %)?

It drives me nuts to hear indie authors talk about their 70 % «royalty» from Amazon.

This means that indie authors can't determine in advance what their royalty rates will be under KU.

For indie authors, ebook royalties are your bread and butter.

Amazon made waves by offering a 70 % royalty rate to indie authors starting on June 30th, 2010.

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

«Indie ebook authors are earning royalty percentages that are 3 - 5 times higher than what traditionally published authors earn.

According to the most recent report, self - published titles make up more than one - fourth of the books published on Kindle, yet indie authors make 40 % of the royalties, which is more than the Big Five publishers receive combined.

The event was the grand unveiling of KDP Select, a program that was being sold to indie authors as a way of increasing exposure and possibly bumping up royalties as well.

Where a mainstream author gets a 15 % royalty, Amazon gives the indie author a 70 % royalty.

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.

And, while I knew of other indie authors, like David Gaughran and Joanna Penn, who were working to find translators on their own (often using a royalty splitting agreement), or -LSB-...]

The days of royalty presses taking risks on unknown authors have changed dramatically, so indie authors have opted to take their own chances.

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.»]

We'll also see more indie authors partnering with agents and royalty publishers to package and market their books.

Since translators carry the risk of sales just as much as the author does when working indie, the risk has to be compensated with higher royalty rates when paying lower flat fees up front.

Unlike many companies who offer publishing tools for indie authors, BookBaby does not take an additional royalty on each item sold.

You'll see many traditional authors embrace indie publishing, because they realize they can undercut the publishers, make a 70 % royalty instead of 10 % or less, and own all rights to their work.

Pronoun is a free self - publishing platform and they have just announced that they have increased the royalty rates for indie authors.

Indie authors who took a browse through their KDP dashboards this week might have noticed a tiny new «unclickable» feature: a 50 % royalty.

What kills the earnings of the indie / self - pubbed authors are the numerous 99 cents and $ 1.99 eBooks at the 35 % royalty rate.

A publisher that is willing to take account of a writer's self - publishing credentials, and to acknowledge the writer as the creative director of the book and — crucially — reflect this mutual collaboration in royalties and terms (not just lip service) can be a good partner for a successful indie author.

They also do things that are still very difficult for indie - authors to do, like create beautiful covers and paper stock for print products, sell translated copies overseas, and cover the author's expenses with an advance until the book starts earning royalties.

At first I considered the tests positive and stated publicly that the Select KENP royalty system may be a great thing for Indie Authors and Small Publishing companies.

This new London based company is attempting to get indie authors to sign up with its service and writers will retain 100 % of the royalties on the ebooks they sell.

If you are like the vast majority of indie authors that struggle and sell little to no copies, no narrator will do a royalty share with you.

While BookBrewer is known for its ebook distribution, its print - on - demand hard copy editions, and some of the highest author royalties among any of the indie publishing platforms, the site focused on its AuthorApps feature at the Expo.

Explaining in a little more detail than in my previous comment (I'm still recovering from a head cold)... I guess you can say that I'm one of those «successful indie authors» Randy mentioned because this year, my royalties are in the upper five - figure range.

Publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and with the author royalty rates at 70 %, an indie author would be able to take away $ 2.09 and $ 2.79 on a $ 2.99 and $ 3,99 priced e-book, respectively.

-- New and frustrated authors are attracted by the nice royalties they can earn by going indie, but you still have to

If an author is picked up by a small publishing house, it is not Indie because the author received money and, hopefully, royalties for his manuscript and the publisher handled the rest.

Many indie authors eschew pbooks over ebooks because of costs and royalties and other things (I can release an ebook more efficiently than a pbook), but even Amazon does paper (Create Space).

All the author has to fall back on until the indie work takes off, if it takes off, are royalties from books already out in print.

7 Those in the indie author community who fear Amazon might turn its back on them or adjust royalty structures might be comforted to see here that they are more important to Amazon's bottom line than anyone suspected.

While I've certainly held dreams of being traditionally published for many years, as an author, I wouldn't be thrilled if I were signed to a long - term deal with a publisher who was trying to kill e-books and giving me lower and lower e-book royalties, while indie authors are about to get 70 %.

Note: Salaried writers usually get more money up front than the majority of authors, either indie or traditionally published, but in most cases that's work for hire without a royalty ingredient.

Now that the $ 299 rate is in place, indie authors keep 100 % of the royalties.

Overall, the stats show that indie authors are doing pretty well when it comes to e-book sales and royalties.

The growth of titles in the $ 2.99 - $ 9.99 range has been supported both by the fact that Kindle pays indie authors who conform to this pricing range almost twice the royalty rate that is otherwise available to them and by the frequently stated resistance of many Kindle customers to prices above $ 9.99.