Journals that rely
on author payments might disappear in a decade or so, he speculates, as research funding agencies and universities adopt new ways of financing the publishing and sharing of information.
So common is the
semiannual author payment in traditional publishing that Amazon Publishing — the trade wing, not the self - publishing platform — has made a selling point of offering «some things authors might not expect, including monthly royalty payments, access to daily sales reports.»
The Public Lending Right Commission shall
provide author payments for e-books and allot additional monies to this end.
That's remarkably easy to demonstrate using Amazon's published rates for
author payments.
The author payment structure is new, granted, but Novellas have existed for just as long as novels, and short non-fiction book are incredibly common.
Depends on how publishers calculate net though, so it is not accurate to say that a 25 % net royalty automatically translates to
an author payment of 17.5 %.