Not exact matches
Amazon Publishing offered
higher royalties than traditionally published
authors were used to receiving, as well as discarded the quarterly -
payouts system of royalties in favor of the monthly payments that even no - name self - published
authors enjoy.
If your book is a $ 2.99 title or more with over 50 pages of original,
author - generated writing, then you get the
higher payout and / or monthly bonus.
All of these allegations seem to stem from sales that took place leading up to 2004, well before Harlequin established its ebook imprint, Carina Press, a digital publisher that led the way among publishers for offering unheard of
author royalties, doing away with advances in exchange for
higher sales
payouts, and a radically new output of titles each month.
With Konrath's departure, it occurs to me to wonder whether Amazon didn't anticipate some
high - profile defections from Select as the
payout dropped, and instituted the Bonus program as a way to keep those
authors in the program.
During the early days of KOLL, Amazon only invested about $ 1 million into the pool, but the
payouts were
higher due to fewer books and fewer overall borrows, which allowed participating
authors to really reap the rewards.
Amazon dashed hopes of a strong start to the year for KDP Select
authors as the Kindle Unlimited
payout for January 2015 fell to $ 1.38 per borrow from $ 1.43 in December despite the KDP Select fund for January being topped up to yet another record
high of $ 8.5 million.
The Kindle Unlimited
payout per KENP (Kindle Edition Normalized Page) to
authors fell by 9 % to $ 0.0041 in January from $ 0.0045 in December 2015 in spite of a 11 % boost for the KDP Select global fund taking it to another new
high of $ 15 million from $ 13.5 million in the previous month.
In the 2003 publication the
authors stated, «The historical evidence strongly suggests that expected earnings growth is fastest when current
payout ratios (of dividends) are
high and slowest when
payout ratios are low.»
In the introduction to their study, the
authors state: «Our tests also show that
high - dividend -
payout companies tend to experience strong, not weak, future earnings growth.»
The
authors of Buffett's Alpha consider
high payout ratios a signal of
high quality as well.