Sentences with phrase «about author royalties»

I've also talked about author royalties and the way they're shrinking fast.

«I am also concerned about author royalties,» Mr Page said.

Not exact matches

Authors under contract with Hachette publicly complained about a drop in their book sales, causing them to worry about a loss of royalties.

Unfortunately, most e-publishers are pretty hush - hush about the amount of money their authors receive in royalties, but it's safe to say that it's probably more than mainline publishers offer, but not as much as you'd get from publishing your book yourself.

The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns — besides being an amazing book about justice and poverty, author royalties benefit World Vision

All the details about the Diamond publishing service are on display on this screen, including the publishing agreement which details the 100 % author royalty payout.

During the session Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch, when asked about the possibility of doubling the current e-book royalty rate to 50 %, said there could be alternative ways to see to it that authors get a bigger slice of the profits.

that you, the author, can make decisions about the design and content of your book, determine your royalty and give us non-exclusive rights which can be terminated at any time.

Many authors are very concerned about Author Solutions and their ability to pay royalties.

In this episode, Alex asks Steve about how to calculate your author royalties and what deductions can be taken for a book - based business.

Keynote speaker and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Pat Flynn will reveal what all authors should know about generating an income from their work, beyond the advances and royalties.

Each time an ebook is borrowed the author gets a payment of about $ 2, which is many cases is more than the royalty they would result had the ebook been purchased.

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

In short: All Romance Ebooks is closing, and there has been a firestorm of bad reaction about this, because of their attempt to offer impacted authors ten cents on the dollar for outstanding royalties owed.

Cass talks about things like what editorial letters are, how royalties and rights work, and what it's like to write a sequel, all with an approachable, refreshing genuineness that reminds us successful authors really are just like us.

After complaints about the improper royalty payments, Ellora's Cave attempted to modify its publishing contracts with its authors, including Josephson, by unilaterally informing the authors that Ellora's Cave would begin paying an increased royalty rate (45 % or 40 %) but pay the royalty rate based on the sales price, which was often substantially lower than the cover price.

I've already talked about anti piracy and the money we spend to protect author's royalties.

The Authors Guild insists that rights holders retain the ability to negotiate for higher royalties, block displays of their work entirely and change their mind about which books are included at any time.

Writers» conferences provide ideal environments for learning about the various modes of publishing: the traditional model of the big publishing house, self publishing, independent presses, vanity presses, and the new «hybrid» author - publisher partnership model, which offers much higher royalties and transparency about the process for writers.

That's an awful lot compared to traditionally published authors, whose royalties are about 7 - 10 % for a paperback and 25 % for an e-book.

The same names keep being bandied about — the Bella Andres, the Hugh Howeys, the Barbara Freethys — but there are an ever - increasing number of authors who are not only pleased with their self - publishing decisions, but they're being hailed as savvy businesspeople for not being tricked into turning over their entire livelihoods to the traditional model and its sad royalty share.

Harlequin may be Canadian, but are not really involved in eBooks except for their imprint Karina Press which is all about e-Books but there is a running debate if they screw their authors over with royalties an never give advances.

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.

They asked about advances, royalties, and the difference in payment to the author between buying a book on Kindle or through «loans» on Kindle Unlimited.

Now, I'm no expert in contracts, but when I see a written agreement that includes no advance payment to the author, a 50/50 split of royalties AFTER a muddled clause about subtracting fees for costs that may or may not include promotion, marketing, set - up fees, and even printing fees, with lifetime ownership of the copyright, I think SCAM.

Questions about being picked up by a major traditional publishing house, leaving those professionals without their royalties, have been raised, along with veiled concerns that this is nothing more than a carefully screened list of names that the author must still hire up front.

At the present time, traditionally published authors still only receive the standard 15 % royalty, identical to what they would earn on hardcover sales; the chairman explained the historical rationale for the 15 % paid out to authors, which was based on the assumption that the cost of producing the physical book was about 70 % of the sales price and the remaining 30 % was to be split equally between the author and the publisher.

CS has been wide open about the terms of this closure, and what it will mean for authors who are accustomed to those higher royalties:

Today on the show I talk about all of the latest rumors about Amazon potentially lowering self - published authors royalty rates from 70 % to 30 %.

I don't deny the fact that Amazon might someday cut author royalties, but I see no reason to worry about it now.

However, if I'm wrong about the deep discounting, then I have no idea why my royalty statements and the royalty statements of other authors that I've seen from different companies are 80 - 90 % paid at the deep discount royalty rate.

Three or four weeks ago, we began discussions with the Author's Guild on their concerns about our new royalty terms.

You're not the first author I've heard about who found errors in royalty statements and the agent Kristin Nelson has spoken often in the past about how she reviews all the statements that come into her office and finds a surprising number of errors (and suggests there are likely many authors out there who are losing money because they're not taking a close enough look at their statements).

Chris Bass, Director of Marketing for Booktango, joins Bookgoodies host Deborah Carney for a discussion about self pulblishing and how Booktango helps authors, plus allows them to keep more of their royalties.

The way I got into self - publishing myself was through the cooperation with self - published British author and blogger Joanna Penn on a split - royalty basis, because I knew I could learn a lot about the process by doing this and here is a link to an interview she did with me regarding my work.

One author has spoken out, largely about the disparity in author royalties.

What authors might be confused about in regards to this newest lending market in Japan is that their books are still only available in English, so the risk of losing royalties by putting their titles in the Select program might actually be a little higher than if they were not already enrolled.

These «one - percenters» (to borrow a term from current political parlance) get extravagant advances from the publishing houses — advances so large that they don't care much about other contractual terms, such as royalties and subsidiary rights, which other authors must endure.

First, Wylie probably got about 70 % royalties for his company / author.

Most of the bought off, but Apple didn't, was found guilty — thereby, as you can't collude on your own, as near to a guilty verdict as you'll get), Amazon have paid authors well (70 % royalties as opposed to about 17.5 %), with transparent accounting and timely payments every month with a two month delay — instead of 8 - 18 months publishers managed.

And for some self - publishing rights information, the following are some common questions from readers about self - publishing fees, different book rights, and book royalties that authors have to consider when making the decision to publish or with whom to publish.

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

And the author royalty on an e-book sale is usually about the same as it is for a print book, even though the list price of the e edition is lower.

And (2) the famous 70 - percent royalty an author is paid in this setting by Amazon seems to be figured on the actual price of the sale (in this case, 99 cents) rather than the author's list price ($ 2.99), despite the fact that the author didn't know about the discount that doesn't seem to have been in response to any competitive price pressures.

Our forecast shows that to start with we will convert about 25 books a month at a higher margin for Surefire and a larger royalty for the authors.»

A cool thing about MatchBook for authors is that if you ordinarily earn the 70 % royalty rate on a sale, you still earn 70 % if the MatchBook price is below $ 2.99.

Prior to publishing, every author has the opportunity to entertain fantasies about book royalties.

I know an author who wrote for a publisher (with agent and editor) for nearly three decades, at about 4 % royalty, before realizing that she could earn far more by self - publishing.

Now there is a tool for this, they can earn 70 % instead of 35 % royalties during their promotions, and all customers will see the discount at Amazon, even if they hadn't heard about the author's promotion.

The numbers for a mass - market paperback book that sells for $ 8 would include about 75 cents for printing, an 8 % royalty to the author (64 cents), and the same 50 % ($ 4) to the retailer.