There are several reasons for this, including piracy and the rise of digital books, but the Guild's executive director Mary Rasenberger thinks the major reason is simply that publishers are giving
authors smaller cuts of the profits.
Not exact matches
Ask if there are ways to
cut down on costs, says Fred Steingold, an Ann Arbor, Mich., attorney and
author of Legal Guide for Starting & Running a
Small Business (Nolo, 2011).
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Continuing his efforts from past sessions to
cut red tape for New York's
small businesses, Assemblyman Bing
authored two laws in 2010 that will reduce administrative burdens in the insurance and real estate brokerage industries.
In an article in the journal Nature this week,
authors Katherine Zink and Daniel Lieberman report experiments which support the use of stone tools to
cut meat into
small portions to reduce the amount of mastication - chewing - before swallowing the food.
-- Julia Turshen,
author of
Small Victories «As a practicing physician focused on how nutrition, prevention and wellness factor into today's cutting edge medicine, I'm constantly urging my patients to consider how the small daily choices we make impact our bo
Small Victories «As a practicing physician focused on how nutrition, prevention and wellness factor into today's
cutting edge medicine, I'm constantly urging my patients to consider how the
small daily choices we make impact our bo
small daily choices we make impact our bodies.
Numerous Traditional
Authors have left traditional houses because they get tired of being jerked around and only getting a
small cut of their royalties while indies either get ALL their royalties if they self publish, or a far larger portion of their royalties if they publish through an indie house.
Moerer also boasted that Apple charges the same split, taking a 30 percent
cut of all sales, whether a book is published by a major company, or if it is self - published by a
smaller author.
I've heard
authors talk about
cutting a 120,000 - word book into two or three
smaller books and selling them as a series because series tend to sell better than stand alone books.
But if
authors are making a very
small cut of a lot of those numbers, how is it helping
authors to know the percentage of those dollars that are in print?
«
Authors are already getting a
smaller cut when it comes to e-books and when you look at the music subscription services, it is the music companies who are making money and the artists who are getting less.
If your book wound up on the midlist (which by definition most did) then low volume and a
small cut of the books total sales price made it financially impossible for
authors to write full time as their sole source of income.
As more and more
authors discover that they can
cut out the middle man through many of the self - publishing services cropping up, a whole new breed of
small - scale publisher is emerging, both in the U.S. and in Europe.
But as the number of brick and mortar bookstores decline (and as many of the remaining ones
cut author appearances), actually going out to speak at bookstores is just a
small part of what you as an
author can do to promote your book.
There are a few reasons this isn't as far - fetched as you may think — lots of backlist books being released as ebooks, indie
authors continuing to sell books at $ 1,
smaller publishers and new publishers taking advantage of Amazon and Apple's 70 %
cut model.
That means the
author gets a
smaller cut while the publisher takes a larger share.
«The subscription models have proven a great way to go for large corporations, but as far as it looks right now the
cut might be too
small for indie
authors to be interesting or worth it.
Leading up to Quantum Break they dropped several hints at future projects, and even included multiple clues and
cut scenes in Quantum Break referencing the
small town of Bright Falls and its famous
author.
While
cutting personnel is tempting, since workers usually represent the largest expense for a business, it can be dangerous, says Denise O'Berry, a
small - business expert and author of Small Business Cash Flow: Strategies for Making Your Business a Financial Success (Wiley, 2
small - business expert and
author of
Small Business Cash Flow: Strategies for Making Your Business a Financial Success (Wiley, 2
Small Business Cash Flow: Strategies for Making Your Business a Financial Success (Wiley, 2006).