Those erotic shorts only earned 35
cents royalty on a sale, right?
Brown's lease paid $ 1,200 a year, plus a 70 -
cent royalty on every cubic yard of sand and gravel removed.
An author whose work is picked up will receive a contract with Kindle Press and will be paid a $ 1,500 advance and 50 per
cent royalties on ebook sales.
Not exact matches
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.
The new tax would raise about $ 3 billion above and beyond the state revenue raised by a 7.5 per
cent state mining
royalty and the income tax that they pay the commonwealth
on profits earned.
According to James Hiddleston of Isis Innovation, a company that handles patents
on behalf of the University of Oxford, the ideal situation is to find a company in the first year that will pay for a licence, agree a 5 per
cent royalty, and invest # 500 000 to develop the technology.
They can say «well, we sold it
on sale in Iceland for the equivalent of $ 5.00, but with the exchange rate at time of sale, and the fees of transferring and converting currency, your
royalty is 0.04
cents.
Unfortunately, some file types require conversion to read
on the Kindle, and this costs 15
cents per megabyte within the United States (or 99
cents elsewhere), in effect a
royalty paid to Amazon for letting you read your own documents.
I earn $ 2
on a sale of that one, but I only earn 35 and 60
cents respectively
on the first two adventures, because ebooks priced under $ 2.99 receive a 35 %
royalty rate.
In short: All Romance Ebooks is closing, and there has been a firestorm of bad reaction about this, because of their attempt to offer impacted authors ten
cents on the dollar for outstanding
royalties owed.
If you set those terms
on IngramSpark, you would get around $ 3.00
royalty per copy sold, but with CreateSpace you get about $ 0.95
cents.
99
cents is the lowest price
on which Kindle and Nook will pay
royalties.
It's no less true for an author: selling a book to someone ill - suited to your writing (or even «meh» about it) is great for that 64
cents (the
royalty a paperback pays), but not so wonderful, as the reader who feels was ripped off is going to take it out
on your reputation (because most readers have no idea how little of that cover price goes to the author.
The
royalty rate is only 30
cents on those sales, but over 2 bucks if you price at 2.99.
Audible offers production services through ACX, but to receive a 40 per
cent royalty rate publishers must hand over exclusive distribution rights to ACX (compared to 25 per
cent if rights are retained to distribute
on CD, to libraries,
on other retailers and internationally.)
The whole.99
cent / 2.99 price (also the breakpoint for higher amazon
royalties) scheme is usually slapped
on serial novels, with.99 being put
on the first book of a series to lure people in.
Because it's at the 35 %
royalty, you're only making about 35
cents on each sale.
For a 6» x 9», 350 - page book, assuming a retail price of $ 14.95, you'd receive $ 6.91 in
royalties for sales in the Createspace store, $ 3.93 for sales
on Amazon, and 91
cents for sales via expanded distribution.
On top of that, our favorite elephant in the room, Amazon, deducts fifteen
cents per megabyte from every
royalty payment as a «transport fee.»
I'm not cheating the author out of
royalties, as they receive their payment based
on the official 99
cent price.
And (2) the famous 70 - percent
royalty an author is paid in this setting by Amazon seems to be figured
on the actual price of the sale (in this case, 99
cents) rather than the author's list price ($ 2.99), despite the fact that the author didn't know about the discount that doesn't seem to have been in response to any competitive price pressures.
Computing the «net receipts» based
on the «license» between Harlequin's Swiss entity and Harlequin Enterprises, Plaintiffs» 50 %
royalty amounts to only 24 to 32
cents.
Some good news: If you ordinarily earn a 70 %
royalty rate for the e-book, you apparently receive 70 %
on the promotional price through Kindle MatchBook, even if this price is 99
cents or $ 1.99.
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.
Kindle offers a 70 %
royalty on books with a list price of $ 9.99, so the
royalty on a $ 9.99 e-book can be as high as $ 6.99 (it will be somewhat lower due to the 15
cents per Mb delivery fee).
In other words, a short story that regularly sold for 99
cents that would receive a 30
cent royalty for a sale would,
on average, receive $ 1.40 for a borrow.
AH: Yes, and it seems that in the end it really comes down to dollars and
cents and a lot of these successful, established mainstream authors are starting to realise they can earn significantly higher
royalties releasing work
on their own than they do going through a traditional publisher.
He offered the book for 99
cents for three days, and was pleased with the sales results, but discovered that most borrowed the book using Kindle Unlimited, which earned him far more than his
royalty on 99
cent sales.
The
royalty fee — five per
cent on gross revenue after the first $ 3,000 per product, per quarter — will remain.
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.
Raising $ 2 billion over ten years — or a modest $ 200 million annually — would thus require increasing
royalties by just 15.8
cents per barrel of oil and 2.7
cents per million British thermal units (MMBtus) of natural gas (assuming the necessary revenues were spread across oil and gas
on an equal energy - content basis).
(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.
Aburaneh is donating 100 per
cent of the
royalties to care.org, a humanitarian organization that fights global poverty, placing a special emphasis
on empowering women.
The U.S. model is still very much predicated
on a
royalty percentage — I think it's six per
cent in the U.S. — whereas we gave our franchisees a choice.