Authors who have not signed with any publishers can self publish their in ebook format and can earn up to 70 per
cent royalties from the books they sell.
Not exact matches
Excluding these
royalties still leaves $ 7 billion in revenue
from «sales of goods and services», accounting for 3.2 per
cent of total budgetary revenues in 2009 - 10.
This means that other than BMI's operating expenses, which are approximately 12
cents on every dollar, all of the money collected
from licensing fees is paid out as
royalties to songwriters.
Indeed, at 24 per
cent in 2012, it is considerably lower even than the ETR observed for the fifth North Sea hydrocarbons producer, the German Federal Land of Schleswig - Holstein, whose government has been increasing the statutory
royalty rate in line with rising oil prices in recent years —
from 12.5 per
cent in 2003 to 21 per
cent as of the time of writing — with the result that the ETR in the German sector of the North Sea in 2012 came to 33 per
cent.
Net Foreign Financing will amount to about GH
cents 3 billion (including a Eurobond of up to GH
cents 1.0 billion), equivalent to 1.2 percent of GDP.Net Domestic Financing will constitute about 73 percent of total financing and includes financing
from bank and non-bank sectors, other domestic sources such as diverstiture proceeds andmineral
royalty prepayment.
Thus, by virtue of section 5 of the Act, the payment of
royalty in respect of the Deep Offshore production sharing contracts shall range
from 4 to 12 per
cent while no
royalty shall be paid whatsoever in areas in excess of 1000 metres depth!
Now, if print publishers would just match the
royalties that authors get
from electronic copies — 70 per
cent vs. 8 per
cent — I bet you'd see the decline of e-books faster than a speeding bullet.
From September to February, count»em, SIX MONTHS, Mark made a whopping $ 10.92
cents in
royalties.
Without the latter, you will simply have those who want to game the system changing the price of their 2,500 work story
from 99
cents to $ 2.99 (or whatever) to get the larger
royalty payout.
The articles will be priced at 99
cents each, with writers and publishers retaining up to 70 percent of the
royalties from the sale of every copy.
You may get a $ 10,000 dollar advance given in two payments (for example, $ 5,000 upon signing and $ 5,000 upon completion), but you will not see a
cent more
from your book until it sells enough copies for your percentage of the
royalties to surpass $ 10,000.
On top of that, our favorite elephant in the room, Amazon, deducts fifteen
cents per megabyte
from every
royalty payment as a «transport fee.»
Sales of Konrath's $ 2.99 ebook will deliver him about $ 2.10 a copy (Konrath says $ 2.04; not sure where the other six
cents is going...), as much or more as he would make on a $ 14.95 paperback
from a trade publisher, and significantly more than he'd make on a $ 9.99 ebook distributed under «Agency» terms and current major publisher
royalty conventions.
It could well be that, when this new
royalty structure kicks in, Amazon will succeed as herding all the «cats» who currently have Kindle books priced
from 99
cents up to $ 2.98 into the $ 2.99 - $ 9.99 corral.
Monetize the entire catalog with prices ranging
from 49
cents for public - domain to $ 9.99 for bestsellers (and more when justifiable for technical books, etc.), a sensible
royalty structure back to publishers (including Amazon Digital Services), rights holders, and authors, and a point - of - sale slice for pysical stores.
So there's that and then for the paid sales it's all about... It works best with boxed sets because there's an expense for advertising that needs to be defrayed by a higher
royalty item so I tend to sell $ 6.99 box sets that give me $ 5.20
from Amazon and I can get clicks around about 20 or 30
cents per click and I can convert those clicks at around about 10 %.
Many authors err by believing that there's no difference between a 99
cent cover price, of which Amazon pays the author 35
cents per copy sold, and a $ 2.99 cover price, of which Amazon pays the author $ 2.09 per copy sold, due to the
royalty rate changing
from 35 % to 70 % at the $ 2.99 level.
Microsoft also recently changed the
royalty scheme for Xbox Live, halving the amount paid for first - party Xbox Live Arcade
from 70 per
cent to 35 per
cent on games that make under a few million dollars in revenue, but also at the same time removing some QA costs.
(Sec. 383) Allows a lessee to withhold
from payment any
royalty due and owing to the United States under any leases under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act for offshore oil or gas production
from a covered lease tract if, on or before the date that the payment is due and payable to the United States, the lessee makes a payment to the state of 44
cents for every $ 1 of
royalty withheld.
Accordingly, The Associated Press reports, EMI is now on the hook to pay publishing company Larrikin Music, the copyright holder for «Kookaburra,» five per
cent of
royalties earned
from the song since 2002 and
from its future earnings.