Sentences with phrase «author royalties at»

John — So help me understand why you're defending the status quo — In which publishers collude to fix author royalties at 15 %, and in which e-books earn you ~ 1.65 less per sale and them ~ $ 2.50 more than p - books — so aggressively?

Cumulative author royalties at the end of a calendar year will be issued by February 28.

Not exact matches

Wylie's gambit seeks to resolve two issues: the assumption by publishers that existing contracts written before the advent of e-books automatically confer digital publishing rights, and the assumption that authors» royalty rates should remain at historic levels despite lower e-book production costs for publishers.

luckily i was able to put down their «marketing» consaltant, she did try to press on useless marketing service at cost of 5thousands dollars, what a shameless b... ch, she had nothing to say on question how can i be sure that i will have a return on such «investment», can you guarantee me that i will actually sale a book, and with author royalty like 40pence how many do i have to sell to get back my money?

Books appear quickly on Amazon via CS and while author royalties are slightly higher, some authors reported print quality to be better at IngramSpark.

However, if you want to make the most money (especially on Amazon, which only allows authors to receive 70 percent in royalties if the book is priced at $ 2.99 or higher — $ 1.99 and $ 0.99 books only allow authors a 35 percent royalty rate), then $ 4.99 appears to be the best price point for selling a good amount of books (though far less than with a lower price point) while making the most in profit.

The benefit of running at $ 1.99 of course is during a Kindle Countdown Deal where the author receives 70 % royalty you're earning an additional 70 cents per sale.

Recognizing that this could cause consternation when the royalty reports came out and the numbers didn't match, Amazon sent out an email explaining that for July, at least, all downloads through the KU program would result in payouts to their authors.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware BLUE DECO PUBLISHING Writer Beware has received multiple documented complaints from authors at Blue Deco Publishing.Problems cited include late or missing royalties and royalty statements, broken marketing p... -LSB-...]

I buy them at my author discount of 35 %, and sell them on at full, or near full price, so my purchases count as sales — 10 % gives me # 1.46 towards my royalties — plus I make around # 7.50 each copy if I sell at full price.

For example, if total borrows of all participating KDP Select books are 100,000 in a month funded at $ 500,000 and an author's book was borrowed 1,500 times, they will earn $ 7,500 in additional royalties from KDP Select in that month.

The contracts of most authors at most publishing houses do not garner them very much money; royalty percentages are traditionally very low.

that you, the author, can make decisions about the design and content of your book, determine your royalty and give us non-exclusive rights which can be terminated at any time.

Morgan James has always specialized in publishing entrepreneurial authors, offering small advances and higher royalties, and having authors commit to buying a certain number of books at an author rate.

Let's do the math on a hypothetical book with a list price of $ 10: At a 55 % discount to retailers, the publisher would receive $ 4.50 per copy, minus the author's 15 % royalty of $ 1.50.

As soon as he receives $ 5000 in royalties s / he also has the one additional right to vote for the Guild Board, which is the only thing that changes between the Authors Guild of America membership when entering at the $ 500 level or at the $ 5000 for Indie Authors.

Of course, this could be a sign of something less dire, namely that Amazon will work with larger files and let authors sell overly long titles at 50 % royalty in order to make up for what the company is footing in terms of file transfer fees and hosting.

The author has to do all this themselves at their own expense, and in return Amazon will shaft them with a 35 % royalty rate (the 50 % you quote is NET, which is rich given the only place it will be sold is on Amazon, so Amazon will take their 30 % cut and then take another half of what's left) for an ebook.

A standard deep discount clause looks something like this: «On copies of the Work sold by the Publisher at a discount of greater than 55 % from the publisher's retail price through channels outside of ordinary retail trade channels, the author will be paid a royalty of 15 % of the Publisher's net proceeds.»

UP pays royalties of at least $ 1.50 from retail book sales, and authors earn substantially more when they accept orders directly from the public at live events, their own Web sites, etc..

Smashwords also has some perks that make me wish the outfit had made more inroads into the ebook market on its own merits (as a seller and not just a distributor), such as the ability to issue coupons, to offer affiliates a greater percentage of the sales price, and the fact that authors receive a higher royalty rate there than at any of the other stores.

With concrete examples and personal experience, he showed how print publishers are trapped in a pre-digital mind - warp, underserving their authors (except for the mega-sellers at the top) and delivering piddling royalties via opaque statements and outdated practices.

Most indies were sticking to $ 2.99 and up because Amazon made $ 2.99 - $.9.99 the point at which authors could earn the highest royalty percentage.

I was disgusted to see some indie authors shrug their shoulders at the royalty change, arguing it was too high for us to expect it to stay there and Amazon was being too generous.

At some point, New York will have to break down and boost the digital royalties it pays authors.

And never mind that thousands of authors, myself included, have e-books priced at $ 2.99, and by the reader paying the owners of the site for the book instead of Amazon or B&N, the author gets cheated out of a royalty.

Authors maintain complete freedom to add or remove their books to D2D at will, keeping all their rights, and any royalties due from sales.

Is the print publishing industry all - at - sea in their approach to pricing, author royalty and distribution of ebooks?

An open - ended clause that would allow the publisher to spend profligately on producing a new edition and debit the amount from the author's royalties should be avoided if at all possible.

I would doubt that these terms negotiations would have any bearings at all on royalties that authors earn.

Amazon has also done better marketing and offers authors — at least directly — better royalties, all while delivering less expensive books to readers.

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.

The Authors Guild insists that rights holders retain the ability to negotiate for higher royalties, block displays of their work entirely and change their mind about which books are included at any time.

If you are unfamiliar with the royalty structure on most major retailers, then you may be asking yourself: How is it that authors earn more money at $ 2.99 - $ 4.99 than they do at $ 0.99 - $ 1.99, when they sell fewer copies of their book?

This creates a situation where it's actually more profitable for the publisher to sell books at the deep discount than just above it, since the reduction in the author's royalty more than offsets the amount of the reduction in the selling price.

These royalties will be at a reduced rate, and the author should try to negotiate that the reduction be based on the extent of the revisions.

Publishers have been successfully sued for selling their own books to foreign subsidiaries at drastically reduced prices in order to reduce author royalties.

Since most books never become bestsellers, this means most authors never see any royalties at all.

For example, audiobook narrators and authors at Amazon's ACX platform can work without initial payments passing hands and, instead, share in royalties from sales.

I think it was Mark Lawrence who said recently that authors that go through a publishing house looked at the advance as the thing, and that advances usually ran around $ 10,000 or thereabouts, because most books published sell around 500 copies or so, and so you can't depend on getting any royalties over the advance.

As a Kindle Direct (KDP), not Kindle Select (KSP), author, you won't have the option to do Pre-orders on Amazon until Volume III, but at least you can check in on any day, any hour and get not only several different sales and author relative ranks, but go look at your actual sales figures online, including total sales, gross cash intake and net royalties.

As the author, your royalty is set at 50 % of the sales price of the book.

Now Apple and its new homeboy Smashwords is luring authors, not with a higher royalty rate (60 % vs 70 % with Amazon), but by allowing authors to price their books at $ 0.99 or $ 1.99, which many authors have done on Kindle in order to generate more downloads and find more readers.

The author gets a higher royalty percentage, but NOT a higher royalty in dollars when ebooks are priced at 9.99 or lower.

If you look at the standard hardcover book, it normally retails for around $ 27.99 and gives a $ 5.67 profit to the publisher and $ 4.20 royalty to author.

The 2.99 -3.99 «sweet point» is popular not so much because readers buy more at that price than because more and more authors list at that price in order to get the 70 % «royalty» from Amazon.

Membership is limited to authors who are published by an «established» US publisher (re: well - known, not necessarily independent), freelancers who are published by general circulation periodicals, or self - published authors who earn at least $ 5000 in royalties in an 18 - month period.

Right now, books must be priced at $ 2.99 or higher to pay the 70 % royalty to the author or publisher; since participation in Kindle Countdown Deals requires a discount of at least $ 1US, books that therefore fall below the $ 2.99 requirement will still pay out at 70 % on sales at the discounted price.

But is this too little, too late for an industry in which authors are routinely thumbing their noses at giving up as much as 85 % of their royalties for the privilege of being «accepted» by the traditional industry?

For example, the ebook royalty rate isn't negotiable for now because every single author with a decent agent has a clause that says as soon as another author at the same house receives a higher rate, they'll get the higher rate, too.