Sentences with phrase «author royalties whole»

Not that that fact is stopping me now... We first suggested that we (Amazon and Hachette) jointly make author royalties whole during the term of the dispute.

Not exact matches

With news this week that Amazon has added whole new international markets to its list of places where authors and publishers can earn a 70 % royalty on ebooks, the rumors and misinformed half - truths have begun swirling again as authors set out to decipher the terms.

Here's the kicker, though: they pay the same royalty to the author (assuming they report ebook sales honestly, which is a whole «nother kettle of fish.)

A customer might read 2 paragraphs of a very short story and that author will earn just as much of a royalty as if a customer read several chapters of an epic fantasy or perhaps a whole book of an omnibus.

In an open letter to librarians explaining its switch to limit the number of check - outs a library can offer on an e-book, HarperCollins said that its previous policy of «selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book eco-system, hurt the growing e-book channel, place additional pressure on physical bookstores, and in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made in another channel.»

Will they be able to make up lost royalties per book in volume or will authors, whose income on the whole has never been great be beggared so that fat cats like Apple and Amazon can enrich themselves further??