It's free for the reviewer, but the publisher /
author pays a listing fee to add the book.
Not exact matches
The
authors identified districts
listed on the NCPI website that reported having performance
pay programs, and divided the number of such districts by the total number of districts in the United States.
«Amazon
pays a royalty of 35 percent for books
listed below $ 2.99,» says K.J. Burkhardt (a pen name), the 45 - year - old
author of «Taken by the Tentacle Monsters» and «Bred to the Creature.»
This is another mark in their favor, because why would a romance
author pay the same amount for a
list that only likes science fiction?
You know, a publishing house that could offer royalty advances, but might also require the
author to
pay some of the costs, up front, and to provide a pre-launch
list of people (maybe a thousand or more) who have ordered advance copies of the book.
When an
author gets
paid on less than half the
list price, that's bad enough.
Now that Gone Girl is on the New York Times bestseller
list for the 7th week in a row; 20th Century Fox has
paid $ 1.5 million for the film rights (with Reese Witherspoon producing and starring, and Flynn writing the adaptation); and the
author is appearing on morning news shows... I thought you might want one more nudge to read this brilliant, exciting thriller.
A number of
authors have criticized the concept of free book giveaways or
listing ebooks at substantially lower prices, based on the belief that this will translate into not only higher rates of piracy, but also lost sales from readers who would have otherwise
paid full price.
If i publish a book via Create Space and sell 2 copies and sell 1 e-book copy am I now considered a «hybrid
author» What If i
pay a company $ 50,000 to artificially inflate my new book, so it rockets to the top of the Amazon bestseller
list, am I now a bestselling
author?
As XinXii is an European based company, we have to warrant two aspects: - we have to
pay the German VAT to the tax office for each eBook sold (19 %)- the VAT must be always included in the final price of all products
listed on XinXii So after a sale, we have to transfer the VAT to the tax office, and the
author will get his percentage of the net price as provision / royalty.
In addition, Findaway Voices gives
authors full control of pricing, and royalties are
paid based on the
list price.
Unable to tolerate a move toward democratic literature, where any voice is free to publish, where
authors are
paid 70 % of
list price instead of a mere 17.5 %, they rely instead on appeals to litigation, on a public relations campaign within the press, and on collusion.
At http://www.bookzio.com we specialize in promoting indie
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Apparently, you can add being screwed out of equal
pay for
authoring a frigging book to the
list: researchers at Queens College have discovered that books written by female
authors are, on average, sold for just over 50 % less than those written by a dude.
5 Anthologies Open to Submissions (all
paying markets) These 5 anthologies,
listed by
Authors Publish Magazine are looking for stories, poems and essays that range from SciFi erotic poetry to Western fiction.
(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.
We and the
author were
paid on the full digital
list price.
The «Why not» is simple — the only way for
authors to order their own books is by
paying full
list price from their book's Amazon page.
An
author may be asked to subsidize or
pay the full cost of his or her print
Authors who do so should own the physical copies outright, having
paid the manufacturing fees, and should not be required to
pay a «percent - off
list price» amount arbitrated by the publisher when they need to order copies.
To reiterate,
authors never
pay to publish, these fees are reflected in the
list price and are only charged to the purchaser when they buy your work.
Ironically, most of his takeaways are things that weren't unknown to anyone
paying attention a year ago, including the value of an email
list; the importance of an
author's platform; the increasingly out - of - whack signal: noise ratio in the market; print as premium product; the power of free promotions combined with targeted marketing; and, perhaps the most obvious, ebooks have a long way to go before they replace print.
There is a chapter devoted to Book Reviews with no mention of the extremely important and controversial issue of
paid vs. free reviews, and no annotations as to which of those
listed charges
authors for providing reviews nor how much they charge.
Nobody thinks that they're looking a
list that is rigged by an
author who
pays $ 50,000 — $ 150,000 to buy thousands of copies of their own book.
With almost all of the
paid services, the cost of a
listing will depend on both the genre of the book and the level of discount the
author is offering: free books, for example, will commonly be cheaper to promote than $ 3.99 books.
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But Random and its imprints and
authors have benefited hugely from the price flexibility that Amazon and other retailers have been allowed, especially since the publisher and the
authors get
paid based on full
list price even if a title is discounted below wholesale cost in the Kindle Store and elsewhere.
Below is a
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When I can buy books by
authors whose work I love, when I can find new
authors who join my «must read»
list for half the price of what a traditionally published e-book costs, why should I limit my reading by
paying the high dollars?
These guides
list the percentage of new
authors published as well as the percentage of sales they
pay.
The worst misunderstanding of too many
authors who depend on Macmillan is that they argue they get less money with a $ 9.99 book when, in Fact, Amazon
pays the publisher based on the
LIST price.
When costs are
listed, they often exceed the amount the
author would have to
pay to self - publish the work - meaning the
author could hire a professional cover designer, developmental editor and copy editor... and still not
pay as much these contracts require.
You said this: We do have a fee for most
authors And then you said this: I was told by Ann and Victoria in the past that we were added to their
list because we don't disclose our fee amount, the problem is that we often times don't have a fee These statements would seem to be contradictory — if most
authors have to
pay to be published, how can it be that there «often» isn't a fee?
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The
authors have to fund the process of setting up the distribution, printing and shipping books to and from a distributor that supplies the bookstores, and they will be
paid much less per book than the
list price printed on the back.
They
paid authors as little as possible, usually between 2 % and 12.5 % of the
list price of a book.
In exchange for incentives such as
paid royalties when Kindle owners borrowed the books,
authors were not allowed to
list their ebooks for sale anywhere else, including their own websites, and were not able to use platforms like Wattpad where users could interact with the book.
And since
authors are
paid based on their
list price, rather than their sale price (everywhere but Audible), they can control their own margins.
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Steve: «On printed books the
author gets
paid based on the
list price of the book; not the discounted price that a retailer might be selling it for.
I can't speak for the new climate in terms of it's current fast track, but previously, it was entirely based on how large an advance an
author was
paid, and if they made it onto the secret hot -
list of
authors they were pushing this season.
One is that many readers remain willing to
pay more for books by name - brand
authors like King, James Patterson or the literary novelist Anthony Doerr, who squeaks in at No. 20 on the Kindle
list.
A concentrated burst of sales and reviews is the fastest way to move up Amazon's
list, at which point they promote you themselves, so some
authors pay for reviews.
On printed books the
author gets
paid based on the
list price of the book; not the discounted price that a retailer might be selling it for.
I added it to our
list under contact forms and let
authors know that
paid options were available as well.
If you spend one day a month researching, writing blogs, doing
paid ads, organising KDP Select promotions, scheduling Facebook posts, connecting with special interest groups who might be able to help with your book sales, building your newsletter
list and updating your
author website it won't take be long before you start kicking goals.
By basically having the
author pay for them to buy his book in massive quantities and
pay ResultSource a hefty five - figure fee to do so, the book sales reflect on the
list.
For indie
authors and publishers who can agree to Amazon's
list of demands, notably making their works available exclusively through Amazon for a set period of time and allowing their works to be loaned through the Kindle lending library, there is a fund of $ 6 million, divided into monthly amounts, allocated to
pay authors as ebooks are borrowed.
«If you're able to keep these independent
authors off of best sellers
lists, the acquisition price that a big five publisher may be willing to
pay would be substantially less than someone who's achieved New York Times or # 1 New York Times best selling status,» the executive said.
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