Sentences with phrase «traditional ebook royalties»

«I agreed to the traditional ebook royalty, which I think is criminally low, because I didn't really have any legs to stand on.

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Is the purpose of self - publishing ebooks really to snag a traditional publisher, at which time your royalties will subsequently plummet?

I mean seriously, if Joe Konrath can make more selling his ebooks at $ 2.99 than he would get in royalties off a $ 24 HARDBACK, there's something seriously wrong with the money side of things in traditional publishing.

Digital royalties have been one of the major sticking points in the debate over traditional vs. self - publishing, with many people (even from the traditional publishing world) arguing that big publishers should raise digital royalties on ebooks to at least 50 percent.

They promise ebook and traditional publishing for substantial royalties but the author needs to upfront a bunch of costs.Stay tuned, it's a wild and wooly scene out there!

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

Because traditional publishers are often foolish in how they handle ebooks — insisting on seeing them as contenders for paper sales rather than a different market entirely and generally overpricing them, in addition to generally giving the authors a pittance of a royalty on them.

Yep, the Traditional Publishers are messing over their writers by paying crappy royalties on ebooks.

A new report claims that self - published authors have surged to 31 % of ebook sales on Amazon.com, and are now earning more ebook royalties than writers published by the «Big five» traditional publishers.

It's long been known within the industry that traditional publishers get a grossly unfair profit share from ebook royalties.

For example, if authors want to participate in the largest and most traditional of publishing models — proponents of which are at such pains these days to defend — it really is rather daunting to think that they, those authors, need to be prepared to suffer what appear, in fact, to be unfair royalty structures on the fastest - growing sector, ebooks.

Outside that range, Amazon only pays 35 % royalties, which is about what some traditional publishers pay authors for ebooks.

The advantage to self - publishing is that you keep up to 70 % of your profit — which can be a lot of money if you're selling thousands of ebooks a month — as opposed to traditional publishing where you might earn an advance against 10 % of royalties.

Agency pricing has returned to ebooks, which means that publishers are setting their own ebook prices and the retailers, like Amazon, are not discounting... Traditional publishers are deliberately receiving a lower percentage royalty to keep ebook prices artificially high.

So when we're analyzing the value a traditional publisher offers us, the numbers of print readers versus ebook readers don't matter beyond royalty percentage concerns.

Under the advance plus royalty model, authors are offered a more traditional publishing arrangement, with Random House's standard eBook royalty of 25 percent of net receipts.

On ebooks priced above the consumer - friendly threshold of $ 9.99 the royalties are only 35 % and 40 % — and thatâ $ ™ s higher than royalties typically paid by traditional publishers.

If he wasn't making out better on his ebook sales than he was on his hardcover sales, then he had a shitty contract deal with his publishers, because Amazon offers much better royalty rates for ebooks than you'll get from a traditional publisher for hardcovers.

Traditional publishers typically offer somewhere between 5 - 15 percent gross royalty to authors and 25 % net royalty on ebooks.

These days traditional publishers often limit authors to a mean - spirited 10 % royalty for print sales and a better but still mean 25 % for ebooks and audiobooks.