People like to say ebooks are forever (i.e., you and your descendants will
earn royalties until the sentient raccoons take over the world in 6400 A.D. and place humankind in chains), but I really didn't believe I'd sell 1143 copies before the raccoon apocalypse.
Not exact matches
Although Olson missed out on the biggest windfall, he still gets a 1 %
royalty from Rollerblade's sales
until 1997, and that has
earned him some $ 10 million.
And you don't get any
royalty payments
until after you've sold enough copies to
earn beyond the advance.
On one hand, the author doesn't receive
royalties until the advance «
earns out,» that is when the amount
earned surpasses the amount of the advance.
They also do things that are still very difficult for indie - authors to do, like create beautiful covers and paper stock for print products, sell translated copies overseas, and cover the author's expenses with an advance
until the book starts
earning royalties.
In the financial world this
earned interest income is known as revenue generated from «the float» — in other words, the money is «floating» in an earmarked account accumulating interest
until the funds must eventually be paid out as
royalties to authors.
Forgo the higher price point and the stronger
royalty percentages to satisfy reader desires (and if you do the math, authors
earn less money with trade pb
until the tipping point), or go for the hardcover, get more support and have a higher chance of
earning out that advance (or the greater risk of failure if it doesn't work).
Until recently, authors living outside of the US had to obtain an EIN to avoid being taxed 30 % on
royalties earned in the US.
As for not knowing how much we are gonna
earn from one month to the next as indie authors... we don't know that with a legacy publisher either —
until we get a
royalty check six months or a year later.
Then she won't see
royalties until after she
earns out her advance.
You will not be paid via check
until you have
earned $ 100 in
royalties (or pounds / euros).
An advance is called an advance because the author will not be paid again
until they
earn enough in
royalties to compensate for that advance.
Larrikin Publishing, the copyright holder of the «Kookaburra» song, requested 40 to 60 percent of the
royalties earned by «Down Under» in Australia during the last six years, but the question of damages was not resolved
until last week.