Sentences with phrase «against royalties»

Not too long ago, books were written by professional writers who signed traditional publishing contracts and were paid advances against royalties for their work.

Assuming your agent successfully sells your manuscript, you'll get an advance against royalties for the number of copies the publishing company thinks it can sell.

We do not license exclusive rights to publish your book from you, nor do we give you an advance against royalties like a traditional publisher.

However, publishers still have to buy the rights to a book no matter if that is an ebook or a print book — paying advances against royalties.

Hmm... you can either spend $ 4500 with no guarantee of ANY distribution [via Harlequin Horizons] = or = GET PAID $ 4000 in advances against royalties with guaranteed distribution [via a traditional publisher].

Some authors don't know it, but Amazon charges delivery charges against your royalty based on the file size of your eBook.

In addition to the specific terms the author and publisher have agreed upon for things like the type of book, the advance against royalty amount and the delivery date, the standard book contract encompasses a lengthy number of clauses covering important points in a book's life cycle and an author's livelihood.

Regarding the share of revenues, publishers generally pay some kind of an advance against royalties on a sliding scale of 10 - 15 % of the retail price, plus a share of the subsidiary rights (ebook, translation, dramatic, audio, reprint and others) that's negotiated by your agent.

Upon termination of this Agreement, we may withhold all Royalties due for a period of three (3) months from the date they would otherwise be payable in order to ensure our ability to offset any refunds or other offsets we are entitled to take against the Royalties.

Most trade publishers have traditionally paid their authors «advances against royalties earned.»

Manuel from Ogden, Utah No, on the contrary, publishing houses will often give you money up front (it is known as an advance payment against royalties) for the rights to publish your work, and you will also be entitled to royalties and other payments as negotiated in your publishing contract.

File size is important even if your eBook is not over 10 megabytes, as Amazon will charge 15 cents per megabyte against your royalties when your eBook is sold under the 70 % royalty option.

Not only do readers prefer smaller files, but Amazon charges a small fee against your royalties, per sale, depending on your eBook's file size.

Authors who make a deal with one of the Big Five book publishing houses or some of the larger independent publishing houses are generally paid a percentage royalty for each book sold and are given an advance against those royalties upfront, before publication date.

To do research for the book I had to buy various informational books which I plan to expense against royalties that my book generates.

Publishers also establish a level of changes which they will allow the author to make in the final stages of production, often 10 % or 15 % of the cost of preparing the proofs, above which the author will be charged against royalties.

In the past, if you were a solid writer with an interesting idea, you had a shot at getting a deal that would pay an advance against royalties with a publisher that assumed all publishing costs.

Although the details of Comey's contract with Macmillan aren't public, most book contracts will give an advance against royalties and then pay a set percentage of the book's list price outlined in the contract.

An advance is an advance against your royalties.

Traditional publishers assume all the risk; they pay the writer an advance against royalties and cover all the costs of marketing.

There are variations of this model, such as advance against royalties or royalty - only, but the principle remains the same: the money flows toward the author.

For example, a small publisher may not be in a financial position to pay advances against royalties but it may be able to provide editing, design services, and publishing expertise — valuable contributions that writers often lack the skills and experience to handle on their own.

The advance is just that — an advance against royalties — and just like a record deal the publisher keeps all of the revenue until the advance is fully recouped, if ever.

With these options, publishers take on the financial risk and you are either paid an advance against royalties to write the book, or, as is increasingly the case, you get no advance, but don't have to spend your own money to produce your book.

One thing that should be included in any trade publishing contract is an advance against royalties.

The publisher will pay you an advance against royalties, and once the advance is earned back, you will earn royalties on further sales.

The «Advance against royalties», often shortened to «Advance» is a essentially a no - interest loan, paid out over time to an author, so that he can write the damn book without worrying about where the mortgage payment is coming from.

Also, self - publishing doesn't guarantee you any up - front advance against royalties.

Most traditional publishers will give the author an advance against royalties.

The amount of the advance against royalties is based on many factors: the size of the publisher, the historical performance of similar books in the marketplace; the author's track record and author platform or both; and the topicality of the book.

What publishers and authors typically refer to as a «book advance» is an «advance against royalties.»

«Against royalties, or future earnings — it's all money I'm going to get eventually; just, eventually doesn't always arrive as quickly as I need it to.»

The do not pay advances against royalties, but if the book sells over 15,000 copies there is a great chance that they will decide to publish your book in major bookstores and you will receive standard print royalties.

The second model follows a more traditional royalty setup, with authors receiving an advance against the royalties and then a standard 25 % of royalties.

We invest in advances against royalties, editing, design, production, marketing, warehousing, shipping, piracy protection, and more.

The do not pay advances against royalties, but if the book sells over 15,000 copies there is a great chance that they will decide to publish your book in print and help promote it to major bookstores all over the world.

Advance Against Your Royalties: Money given to you before the book is finished.

These are hashed out between the author's literary agent usually include the amount of money that the publisher will pay the author as an advance against royalties, and the delivery date of the completed manuscript.

The nice bit about trad pubbing is the advance — but that is against royalties the title has to earn.

The publishers pay writers an advance against royalties.

Typically, an advance against royalties is paid upon the artist signing a contract, with the balance of payment coming after publication.

«Advances» — technically, advances against royalties, are lump - sum payments some publishers pay to authors «in advance» of publishing the author's work.

It sounds like your agent may not be aware of how prices break down against royalty.

«Profile's offer is always for an advance against royalties (and rights income if the publisher is taking, say, translation rights),» Franklin writes.