Sentences with phrase «author royalties for»

Most of all, I applaud Toni for not only inking this deal but for increasing author royalties for e-book sales, something she couldn't have done had she kept their digital sales limited to just the Baen e-books site.

Evolved Publishing will pay translators for their services as follows: No up - front fee, with an attractive straight commission equal to 20 % of author royalties for the translated piece, paid quarterly or semi-annually.

With this new program, referrers can earn 10 % of D2D's cut of author royalties for Books sold through the service's distribution network, for one... [Read more...]

I earn 100 % author royalties for my book, just as all our Outskirts Press authors earn 100 % author royalties for their book (s).

Authors who enter the KDP Select Program agree to give Amazon 90 days exclusivity and in turn Amazon has created a monthly fund that pays authors a royalty for every book borrowed from the Kindle Lending Library.

This means your purchase is supporting the entity that published the book, namely the publisher, and authors are making a profit (albeit small) every time you buy because the publisher is paying an author royalty for each sale.

Also similar to the Kindle Store, these sites may pay authors a royalty for each ebook sale and usually charge authors a fee for order processing.

Not exact matches

Independent authors enjoy more creative control and far better royalties: They keep 50 % to 70 % of book sales, vs. 15 % to 25 % royalties for traditionally published books.

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.

Instead of accepting the 25 percent royalty that most authors take for ebook sales, she now keeps ALL the royalties for Harry Potter ebooks and audiobooks.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

Typically, an author can expect to receive the following royalties: Hardback edition: 10 % of the retail price on the first 5,000 copies; 12.5 % for the next 5,000 copies sold, then 15 % for all further copies sold.

Though the postmodern author, unlike his medieval counterpart, doesn't refuse to sign the text (and receives, or should receive, royalties), there is a weakening of the authorial element that asserted itself for so long in the modern age.

It was for this reason that Lord Ashcroft decided to donate all his author's royalties from his latest book, Heroes of the Skies, published in September 2012, to the RAF Benevolent Fund, which is the custodian of the new memorial.

Lord Ashcroft is donating all the author royalties from the sale of Special Forces Heroes to the charity Help for Heroes which provides support for the servicemen and women wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq.

From their examination of the historical record, the authors argue that the extant lion and cheetah populations of India are not native but the results of animals imported by royalty for sport.

(She's clearly a genius, racking up the royalties for a recently published novel by an author she discovered, and issuing directives such as, «Let's increase the font size two points for the print edition.»)

«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.»

The top royalty for authors was, as it is now, 15 % of the retail price, but there were fewer exceptions allowing the royalty to be cut, contractually or in practice.

The downsides are the low royalties, Amazon sets the price, not the author, and Amazon holds the rights to your Kindle Worlds works for the length of copyright.

We will pay a small ($ 100 - $ 500) advance on royalties for each manuscript accepted for publication from an established author.

I'm willing to send Howey and his team my royalty statements for months in order to help them come up with that estimate, and my guess is he could find many multiple authors who would be equally willing.

For each Kindle book sold, authors and publishers who choose the new 70 percent royalty option will receive 70 percent of list price, net of delivery costs.

I thought I had to do because I wanted a separate Amazon author page for my pen name, but was confused because I wanted the royalty money to go into my original account.

So I need to know which books by which authors (and the royalty for each) they are paying.

IngramSpark distributes books to all online retailers including Amazon, but as mentioned above, their royalties (or publisher compensation as IS terms the amount paid to self - published authors) for Amazon are a bit lower than CreateSpace.Both companies distribute to brick - and - mortar stores.

Amazon finds ways to screw authors too — such as paying royalties on e-books not for the sale of the book but for number of pages read — but, for the most part, I am in control and I like it this way.

Hybrid models have publishers pay for some, where the author pays for some and gets a higher royalty percentage.

Nowadays self - publishing authors and hybrid authors (those who self - publish some books and have traditionally published others) have a plethora of options when it comes to hiring freelancers for their editing, cover and formatting needs, or working with up front companies that handle design and distribution while the author retains all of their rights and receives royalties.

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.

What, other than conversion, is the publisher doing for the author regarding the ebook that justifies them taking such a huge chunk of the royalties?

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.

I would estimate that the average annual income for self - published authors is slightly lower now and, having seen a number of authors quit over the last couple of years in order to get full time jobs because of financial problems, it hasn't gotten any easier to make ends meet on just book royalties.

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When authors publish with Booktango, they receive 100 percent of every dollar sold through Booktango's bookstore and 100 percent of net royalties for any sales through our online retail partners.

With the POD / Subsidy / Vanity Publisher, the author is back to working for a royalty as they would be if they were traditionally published.

iUniverse and Author Solutions willfully breach the contract's royalty provisions every quarter for every customer.

In a letter to Hachette authors and agents, posted by CNN's Brian Stelter, Pietsch wrote that the company will get «full responsibility for the consumer prices of our ebooks,» and that «the percent of revenue on which Hachette authors» ebook royalties are based will not decrease under this agreement.»

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.

And though Borders isn't particularly kind to indies, indie books can be bought for their eReader with a 60 % royalty to the author — only going through Smashwords» distribution channel, of course.

These are the same publishers who, in this day and age of instant communication and RFID tracking and technology have convinced their authors that there is no way to do an actual sales accounting for the purposes of figuring royalty payments.

Self - published authors have been so happy with their «70 % royalties» (which is really a 30 % sales commission for hosting / delivering a file and processing payments) but as soon as Wall St decides the company needs to start turning profits, I'll bet that's the first place they start to squeeze.

When you are a traditionally published author you work for a royalty.

Instead, she went directly to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, an online platform for self - publishing with a 70 % royalty rate for authors.

Unfortunately for the author, the royalty is mere pennies on the dollar unless they are a well - known author.

The simple answer is it makes sense for both authors (universal distribution, more sales, and higher royalties) and readers (cheaper than print, instant delivery, and mobile access).

Royalties: the formula used is unattractive to an author (for example, for one of my paperback which was recently sold, I received 4 cents!)

Just note that your affiliate ID is also country specific as well, so if you want to collect royalties on affiliate sales outside your home country, you will need to set up additional affiliate accounts (just like you do for author central).

(The average royalty percentage for authors with mainstream publishers is between 8 and 15 %.)

Less than 1 % of published authors actually make a living wage from their royalties — and for every Dan Brown (not an extremely gifted writer by the way!)