Sentences with phrase «at author revenue»

The survey looked at author revenue by publication date to assess the phenomenon of diminished sales outside of the first month of publication, as ebooks fall off the «hot new» lists.

Not exact matches

The study's authors say they used the same methods researchers developed in a 2009 report titled «State and Local Government Sales Tax Revenue Losses from Electronic Commerce,» compiled by business professors at the University of Tennessee.

In this section, the authors look at how successful the governments have been in hitting their «budgeted targets for spending and revenues `'».

Clea Kolster, lead author and PhD student with the Grantham Institute at Imperial, said: «Revenue from oil does make the deployment of CCS far more attractive in the near term by providing the majority of capital in early years before carbon dioxide tax incentives have increased sufficiently to overtake oil rRevenue from oil does make the deployment of CCS far more attractive in the near term by providing the majority of capital in early years before carbon dioxide tax incentives have increased sufficiently to overtake oil revenuerevenue.

Describing his work as empowering organizations to author more effective eLearning faster, Steve is currently Chief Revenue Officer at Elucidat.

[8] The study looked at correlations between changes in tuition and a number of variables, including state appropriations — although the authors used «sticker price» to measure tuition, not actual tuition revenues, which might affect the results.

The study suggests the Milwaukee voucher program since 1999 led to a decline in non-school Catholic church revenue by $ 60 million, at least amid the more than 70 Milwaukee Archdiocese parishes studied by the authors.

At HarperCollins Christian Publishing, we are proud to have a world - class Rights and Licensing Division that is positioned to create the broadest possible reach and explore the full array of revenue opportunities for our authors» content.

Now, however, with digital book formats and the ability to publish on your own through a couple dozen different outlets that all share revenues on about a 70:30 split with the author, maybe there's a lot more work to do as an author, but at least the system is set up to reward you the right way.

In 2011 Author Solutions generated revenues of approximately $ 100m, growing at an average annual rate of 12 % over the past three years.

Most of the authors I cherish are long dead and, I can assure you, not missing the added revenue too much at all.

This is creating a new kind of online criminal that abuses the system and creates a new revenue source at the expense of valid authors.

As if in echo of the forthright debate about self - publishers» balance - sheet woes that London author Roz Morris opened (see the «provocation» on it at Writer Unboxed)-- and naming an issue we'll be taking up on 30th November at The FutureBook's Author Day — McLaren is ready to talk of a glutted marketplace, of lower unit sales, dwindling revenue... and yet of an optimism not always encountered in this discussion: «Hard work will be rewarded.&author Roz Morris opened (see the «provocation» on it at Writer Unboxed)-- and naming an issue we'll be taking up on 30th November at The FutureBook's Author Day — McLaren is ready to talk of a glutted marketplace, of lower unit sales, dwindling revenue... and yet of an optimism not always encountered in this discussion: «Hard work will be rewarded.&Author Day — McLaren is ready to talk of a glutted marketplace, of lower unit sales, dwindling revenue... and yet of an optimism not always encountered in this discussion: «Hard work will be rewarded.»

Overnight, those authors relying solely on Amazon will lose their primary revenue stream, and they'll start right back at zero.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

If your primary goal during a promotion is to maximize royalty revenue for you, the author or publisher, then you'll be interested to hear that $ 3.99 has replaced $ 4.99 as the best performing price point for author earnings since we looked at this back in 2015.

According to a company statement reported at that time, Author Solutions generated $ 100 million in revenue in 2011, and has grown at about 12 percent per year for the past three years.

So it was an easy decision for the clients to participate and benefit: Trident would only charge its customary commission based on revenues received by the authors, and Trident would not become an e-book publisher, profiting at the client's expense, being a rights holder, and finding itself potentially in an adversarial position with authors.

In June 2012, Penguin acquired Author Solutions from Bertram Capital for $ 116 million, and according to a company statement reported at that time, Author Solutions generated $ 100 million in revenue in 2011 and has grown at about 12 percent per year for the past three years.

Authors don't get performance revenue unless they are already at the top of the heap.

Usually when one of our authors promotes a free book via BookBub, they have significant (1000 +) audio companion add - on sales at $ 1.99, which bring in a lot of revenue.

However, authors are usually given the opportunity purchase physical copies of books at a reduced or volume discount rate that the author can sell to collect full price «revenues.»

IMO, once again authors, whether self - published or published with a small press or a hybrid, are looked at as another revenue stream.

Goodreads eBooks are in ePUB format, DRM - free, with authors setting the price and getting 70 % of the revenue, payable via check or Paypal at any point after they've earned $ 50.

In these cases, they may ask the author to pay a fee to host the event or share revenues from sales at the book signing.

Authors can no longer tolerate being at the mercy of the publisher to accurately and honestly report the actual numbers behind these revenue streams as opposed to just some bottom - line figure computed in secret; it's essential to know how many people are accessing a work and the income attributable to it in clear and precise terms.

Frequently authors do this with a number of their titles all at once and garner tremendous revenue until another author pays a higher fee to surpass them or a really big bestseller comes out.

The problem seems to be that, whilst Publishers should have an incentive to maximise their revenues from Amazon, and thus maximise royalties to authors, they appear to be screwing both themselves, and their authors, over by settings prices at levels that ensure that they both get less money out of Amazon than they might otherwise do.

In addition to whatever percentage they get from Amazon, at certain sale prices, they are keeping all of the revenue and passing none of it to the authors.

At several points during our visit, the possibility was raised of new collaborations between authors and libraries — including models that could provide improved capabilities for the reading public, more revenue for authors, and lower costs for libraries.

There certainly could be some issues with authors offering individual book chapters at exorbitant prices to increase revenue by strong borrow volume.

Rules like this hinder authors because they prevent sales on Lulu at a lower cost, with higher revenue.

Even at a conservative estimate of $ 1.00 revenue per book, a traditionally published author needs upwards of 10x the sales to match out the earnings.

I don't even know how to say what I feel about publishers at this point — part of the problem is that they insist on acting as if we are still in the 1800's — they haven't changed their business models in a long time and they really are almost clueless when it comes to looking at the future of books — I wouldn't mind paying more for an ebook or even a paper based book if the author was getting more revenue but it's not about the author at this point it's all about the publisher.

In other words — if Amazon's figures are accurate — at the lower price, the publisher's total revenues increase by 16 percent, authors receive 16 percent more in their paycheck, and customers pay 33 percent less.

In an article at PBS.org, Kawasaki explained, «The bottom line is that authors need to think of their book as a business — one that generates revenues and costs.

Next week: We'll complete our series of revenue producing methods for authors with a look at ancillary products and affiliate marketing — the myriad of opportunities here may surprise you!

What is more surprising is if we look at the daily revenue to authors, the earnings based on indie - published titles combined with Amazon, and uncategorized single - author publisher significantly downplays the previous champion of gross sales in the previous chart.

Several top - tier indie authors have reported 75 % + drops in revenue, all thanks to a simple change made behind the scenes at Amazon.

It's the point at which A-list authors decide that 25 % of the trad - publisher revenue just isn't as good as 100 % of indie revenue.

By contrast, self - published authors on Amazon's platform keep 70 % of the total purchase price.6 Let's now look at revenue from the author's perspective:

Speaking can be an additional source of revenue as authors earn a significant fee and still stand a chance to sell their books and products at the venue.

The standard author's royalty rate, for works of at least 10,000 words, is to be 35 % of net revenue and paid monthly.

This week, a look at spreading your wings to discover other potential author revenue streams.

Washington Post — Amazon makes an offer to Hachette authors — this article takes an interesting look at the stats, which indicate that Hachette would have much more to lose by giving up revenue from their author's ebooks than Amazon — «According to Hachette's Web site, the publisher makes approximately 33 percent of its sales from e-books; the New York Times reported that around 60 percent of that business comes through Amazon.

Amazon Publishing pays royalties to both authors and rights holders: For works of at least 10,000 words, authors receive 35 percent of net revenue (based on sales price rather than the standard, but lower, wholesale), paid monthly.

Both organisations advocate that authors should receive «at least 50 % of e-book revenue, not a mere 25 %» as well as more favourable terms in relation to non-competes, indemnities and royalties.

I recall reading about that before — a $ 10 list price book will pay X percent at $ 5 to a vendor, and drop to Y percent at below $ 5, making the author peanuts but the publisher a buttload of bucks if the incremental sales offset the drop in net revenue per unit.

How ever you dice the e-book world, the distribution channel takes 30 % - so before you look at ANY author take, you're at 70 % of the revenues.

I have updated my Ebook Publishing Quick Reference Card (PDF) over at PublishYourOwnEbooks.com This is an excellent resource for indie authors and ebook publishers who would like to be able to see at a glance: The Main Ebook Formats The Major Ebook Stores Ebook Royalties Chart for Each Store Ebook Aggregator Comparison Chart (including 6 major aggregators) Ebook Revenue Chart...