Authors keep any profits from the sale of books they purchased, but they do not count as sales, nor do the authors receive royalties from those purchases.
And the best part of the deal, and one few of our competitors can match, is that
the author keeps ALL their profits.
Not exact matches
Arkadiusz is the
author of Sunshine
Profits» monthly Market Overview report, in which he
keeps subscribers up - to - date regarding key fundamental developments affecting the gold market and helps them prepare for the major changes.
It's becoming increasingly easier for
authors to publish their own work and
keep all the
profits.
Where a traditional publisher may offer a royalty rate of 25 % of net sales,
authors who handle every aspect of publishing their book
keep all the
profits if they can cover their costs.
While libraries are concerned with meeting their budgets and offering relevant content in a way that
keeps patrons looking to their libraries for material, publishers have to ensure that their
authors are compensated and that they continue to earn enough of a
profit to
keep their doors open.
But I also think that Amazon is very smart, and they know that in order to
keep turning a nice
profit they NEED us
authors.
There are many other reasons, of course, like the fact that our
authors keep 100 % of their
profits, 100 % of their rights, and 100 % of the control of their book.
Whereas Amazon's Kindle Store allows
authors to
keep 70 percent of their
profits, Avon Impulse is offering
authors 25 percent of
profits on the first 10,000 copies of each e-book solid, and 50 percent after that.»
Self Publishing, Inc. offers a Direct To POD package, to provide its
author / publishers the same comprehensive availability in the bookselling marketplace, with the freedom to set their own retail prices, and the ability to
keep 100 percent of their net
profits.
While big publishers have larger budgets and more influence with bookstores, indie
authors get to
keep all their
profits.
They offer their service for free and
authors keep up to 90 % of the
profits when their works sell.
I know this doesn't matter because Hatchette said no, but people
keep wondering how 100 % of
profits would work with Hatchette
authors and their contracts.
A self - published
author keeps all book
profits for themselves.
Essentially, BookBaby, has found that charging legitimate
authors an upfront fee to process and distribute their ebooks may cause some to ultimately opt for one of the sites that makes its
profit out of royalties rather than pay an initial investment; however, this same business model means that spam and piracy can be
kept to a minimum as get - rich - quick scammers are loathe to shell out the upfront cost.
While I think self - publishing (TRUE self publishing, where the
author keeps 100 % of the
profit, owns the ISBN and brands the books) makes sense in certain situations, I believe it is a huge mistake for
authors to blindly go this route.
The book is owned solely by the
author, who
keeps all
profits from sales of the book.
When self - published books sell,
authors usually get to
keep 100 % of gross
profits (that means what's left after subtracting costs for printing, distributing, and / or promoting the book).
As
author and publisher, you
keep full ownership rights — including sales /
profits from any future movie, gaming, foreign, or e-book publishing, to a book you may have spent months or even years working on.
Best of all, the
author keeps all the
profits, even while also distributing the book to the third - party, app - specific, device - dependent, royalty - capturing stores.
BUT,
keep in mind, indie
authors are earning 70 % of the
profit, while traditionally published
authors are making more like 10 %.
When searching for back - end
profit ideas, use a simple worksheet like Published & Profitable's Author Profit Tracker to keep track of the author websites you've visited, and the ideas you might want to apply on your own we
profit ideas, use a simple worksheet like Published & Profitable's
Author Profit Tracker to keep track of the author websites you've visited, and the ideas you might want to apply on your own we
Author Profit Tracker to keep track of the author websites you've visited, and the ideas you might want to apply on your own we
Profit Tracker to
keep track of the
author websites you've visited, and the ideas you might want to apply on your own we
author websites you've visited, and the ideas you might want to apply on your own website.
Of course our
authors keep all their rights, and one of the main benefits is that Outskirts Press
authors also
keep 100 % of the
profits of the book, too.
If an
author wants to take self - publishing seriously, it would probably be better (and more dignified) to sell a smaller number of books, but
keep a larger amount of your
profit.
But when comparing Outskirts Press with other quality, full - service self - publishing firms, there are a few benefits: 1) Outskirts Press
authors keep 100 % of their net
profit for book sales.
The
author keeps all the
profits and owns the copyright and ISBN's, which is usually registered to their own publishing imprint, the ideal way I recommend to emerging
authors.
al. come to understand what thousands of lesser
authors already know: Forget paper, publish the thing yourself as a more reasonably priced e-book, sell a * bunch * more than you were selling before and
keep all of the
profits for yourself.
Either it provides you with services that you pay a fair price for up front (and then as the
author you
keep most or all of your sales
profits), or the company charges you little or nothing, but takes a cut of your sales.
Keep in mind that of the thousands of books published by conventional publishers every year, only a small percentage make any real
profit for the publishers or provide an income for the
authors.
Amazon has just recently bumped up their payout for
authors on the DTP to 70 %, which means for every ebook sold, Amazon
keeps 30 % of the
profits and you get the rest.
Publishing Scam Artists: Spotting the Sharks Rather than carefully selecting and investing in books in exchange for a percentage of
profits as do traditional publishers, or offering self - publishing services such as editing or design for a fee and letting
authors keep their royalties, vanity presses take a cut from both pieces of the pie.
With Lulu's direct - live status an
author can create an eBook and have it available for sale almost immediately and
keep up to 90 % of the
profit.
I suspect that the Guideposts sells more than the
authors will ever know and just
keeps the
profits.
People get to write their work, make sure that their names will be
kept in the history of the world among other great writers and
authors, and they can even get nice incentive and
profit.
As large publishers continue to decrease the amount of advances paid, hold the line on e-book royalties, overprice their e-books, block features, and reduce marketing services, my question to best - selling
authors in 2011 is: why give 90 % + of the
profits to a large publisher, when you can hire someone to do your covers and formatting for you, and
keep 70 % for yourself?
And be sure to
keep checking lulu.com to see what exciting new ways we're helping
authors and publishers
profit by enabling them to bring their knowledge and expertise to their customers more easily than ever before.
We believe
authors should have informed choices about every aspect of their book project,
keep all their rights, and receive all the
profits from their book.
Since 95 % of indie
authors today depend on ebooks for 95 % of their
profits (statistics fictional but true) I don't need to
keep track of brick and mortar sales.
If you are an indie
author looking for a way to sell your eBook, without forking over a good percentage of your sales to Amazon, then selling the eBook on your own WordPress website allows you to
keep more of the
profits for yourself.
It also means that to make a
profit on books you still have to sell it in the $ 6 + range (of which the
author gets to
keep some $ 4).
They get to
keep the costs down and MORE of the
profits from the
author who actually deserves it because they pay skimpy royalties.
Self - published
authors have always had several options for how to sell and market their books online, meaning that they could choose options where they could
keep all the
profits from their book sales.
And the end result is that Amazon is making tons of money on ads — money they don't have to share with
authors or publishing houses — while the books themselves become completely devalued, the publishing houses lose their
profit margins in the constant fight to just
keep getting some sales, and
authors soon find themselves getting nothing for their books.
Bookfunnel and Gumroad and Payhip are just a few of the methods indie
authors are using to hand - sell to their biggest fans,
keeping a larger cut of the
profit and building up their own customer list.
Copyright law should be a means (1) to encourage
authors to produce and benefit, (2) to encourage publishers to publish and
keep publishing and
profiting, and (3) to give the public cheap prices and easy access.
Instead of accepting that
authors should share in the
profits of the new media, publishers have tried to
keep everything to themselves.