Independent publishers also generally pay higher
average royalty percentages than traditional publishers.
(
The average royalty percentage for authors with mainstream publishers is between 8 and 15 %.)
Not exact matches
Incorporating
average traditionally - published
royalty rates for e-books (25 % of net) and print (8 % on paperbacks, 15 % on hardcovers) into our calculation, we arrive at the
average percentage of author earnings coming from e-books for traditionally - published fiction and non-fiction authors:
However, where they exceed
average expectations is in their
royalty percentage, which is 30 percent of the price of the books sold through the service and 10 percent on books sold through third party platforms.