Outskirts Press pays 100 %
author royalties regardless of where the book sells.
Not exact matches
What actually may make this venture far more profitable than enhanced ebooks from a few years ago is the building on the HTML5 platform for ease of consumption across multiple platforms, as well as Pubsoft's original offering to the digital publishing industry of creating streamlined, one - stop - shopping for
authors and publishers to market, sell, and retrieve
royalties on their titles,
regardless of retail outlet.
The gist of it was that no books sold through ordinary book selling channels (
regardless of price) could use the deep discount price to lower
author royalties.
Regardless of how books were published,
authors have had to wait for many long months to receive
royalty checks accompanied by their publisher's statement accounting for books sold.
Most
authors don't mind so much — with Outskirts Press they make the same
royalty regardless of Amazon's sales price, so why not let Amazon dip into its profit to invoke more sales for the
author?
And of course, just like Amazon sales, the
author receives their full
royalty, 100 % of the profit,
regardless of the purchase price.
Regardless, my point here is that publishers should be paying
authors a higher
royalty on e-books.
As a clarification, while somewhat convoluted, Amazon's
royalty rate policy is better compared with the mainstream publishers who only offer
authors a 25 %
royalty on ebooks,
regardless of price (and on top of that only pay
authors every 6 - 12 months vs. quarterly for Amazon).