Sentences with phrase «get better royalties»

I didn't know about Pronoun so I'll be checking them out to see if I can get better royalties for my lower priced books on Amazon, and it would be nice to make my books free when I wanted to instead of when Amazon wanted to.

Most agents will get you at least that much more of an advance, but they'll also get you better royalties.

To get the best royalties, and to make your book as widely available as possible, we'll list your book with Lightning Source / Ingram and CreateSpace, the two major POD distributors, for one year (renewable yearly).

They get a better royalty, at 46.75 %.

But then many authors I follow mentioned that they get the best royalties on their Kindle books, so I gave up and began to switch from epubs to mobi.

I get my best royalties from Smashwords, actually, overall — up to over 80 % instead of 70 % - minus - transmission - fees, at best.

You'll get the best royalties if you distribute to each of these sites individually, but if that's not viable, we recommend using Draft2Digital, Pronoun, or Smashwords to distribute your ebooks.

Maybe the Authors Guild should focus on getting better royalty rates from the Big 5.

You will want to price your book on Smashwords at between $ 2.99 and $ 9,99 — this is not because of anything to do with Smashwords itself, but because Amazon price - matches with other sites, and that's the price range in which you get the best royalties on Amazon.

Not exact matches

But aside from Mr. Ferguson (and the supporters who paid $ 500 to hear Mr. Prentice speak last night), I am not sure most voters believe the government should not regularly review royalties to ensure Albertans are getting the best value for their resources.

Ms Notley replied that the royalty review did not cause the international drop in oil prices (she's right, Alberta may think it's the centre of the oil universe, but it's not OPEC), and the commission would be a transparent forum to ensure Albertans get the best value for their natural resources.

Then he knows how to get into kneeling in the Mosque and shouting the stuff from the top of the Mosque (all - ie - all - ie in free Joey is a monkey) And he bows to all the Moslem kings and queens and princes and get snubbed by British Royalty as well as Russian cabinet members (so why is that?)

I've been doing my best to follow the issue (via Sactown Royalty, the King's SB blog, and local news outlets), so I'm looking at their opinions to try and get a sense.

It really doesn't get better than Hollywood elite and British royalty.

As part of the heirloom brand - Silver Cross - that's known for super-luxurious prams made for royalty, this gear is a great choice for people who only want the absolute best for their baby and are willing to pay to get it.

Soon they're hobnobbing with royalty, falling for first loves, and doing their very best not to get caught.

Slightly surprised that draft2digital.com didn't get a mention, because they will produce a print ready pdf as well as a mobi and an epub file, their royalty rates are good and they throw in some extra features like an integrated email shot and automated «also by» pages.

Adding that she doesn't feel a flat royalty rate would ultimately work to get authors a better payout, Weltz said she would like to see escalators more regularly built into the e-book royalty rate and has already had success achieving this in the international market.

You might get one royalty rate for books purchased directly from the publisher's storefront, another rate for books purchased through outside storefronts, a third rate for print book purchases... it's enough to give you a headache, and the more rates you see, the more difficult it is to suss out if it's actually a good deal for you.

For example, you might sign up with Pronoun (because they offer the best royalties on Amazon ebook sales), but then add in Smashwords to get the library market that Pronoun doesn't cover.

I'm guessing that this is going to make not one iota of difference in the way Samhain pays the authors that it promotes to Samhain Gold; Samhain then gets to send editors to conference (comped)(provided that they take pitches only for the Samhain Gold line), and we have a very simple test for allowing e-publishers: If you believe you can guarantee decent royalties for a good number of authors (although not for all of them), you're in.

Personally (speaking as an author as well as a trustee) I'd love to see a system like many Europeans have, in which libraries automatically get all electronic titles, with the author and publisher earning modest royalties based on how often their stuff is lent out.

Okay, I'm a pretty trusting person, but when a royalty statement says Author A sold 8 copies each of three books and this is exactly what they sold the previous royalty period as well... well, I start getting suspicious.

I got a royalty statement with all of my advances basket accounted because... well, because.

You can be sure that has authors like himself get better deals offered to them for royalties percentage, authors will begin to wield more bargaining power then they have had in the past.

There is no library of royalty free e-books to get you started right away, which is a good thing.

What this means is that even though the author and narrator may split audiobook royalties 50/50, the author gets a better return for advertising than the narrator ever could; because some people who are sold by an audiobook ad will buy the print or ebook instead.

Grassroots marketing makes it possible for your book to achieve equal to or better results than if you waited the five years to hear from a publisher, got a contract, and collected royalties after hoping our publisher invests dollars in marketing it.

And most of the wisdom seems to be that it's best to run ads on a box set when you've got three books because the royalty is higher, so you're more likely to get positive ROI.

If that book is 99c, and they're getting 80c, then they're better off as a book priced that low is only eligible for 35 % royalties, therefore earning them only 0.3465 c per sale.

They spend big money on authors who do well in KDP and invite them to publish exclusively with Amazon and they get promotion, bigger royalties and free marketing.

I got in touch with him and his agent, Kristin Nelson, and learned that he was making $ 50,000 a month in royalties, and had a host of foreign deals as well as the movie deal.

If you choose to publish through a different service, such as IngramSpark, your chances of getting a book into physical stores might be slightly better, but now it'll have to jump through hoops on Amazon, which is still the biggest bookseller and generates the highest royalties income of all other retailers for most authors.

I know my ebooks have been selling well — I get royalty checks.

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I want to sign a few authors and have them sell really well, that will encourage more authors to sign up with me and let me get royalties.

I am - well at this point I am not sure what I am, my books are published by a small POD publishing company, I keep all my rights, get royalties, have a great deal of control, have an illustrationist that is out of this world, and love what I am creating.

Sometimes, eg for sales in Eastern Europe or Asia, there could be a local agent involved as well, so after they've all got their share you'll only end up with 50 - 60 % of the advances and the royalties earned.

-- the author and the publisher (if there is one) get royalties as well every time a book is downloaded.

I gathered that struggling authors create royalty share contracts with the thought that whatever revenue they might get from an audiobook would be better than nothing.

I am getting very good reviews, but the royalties are dismal...

Note that if you hire an agent, she will get a percentage of your advance as well as a percentage of the royalties.

If an indie novel costs somewhere between three and 10 bucks (the price required to get Amazon's better royalty, 70 %), the perceived value on a short story wouldn't be very high if it was in the same range.

As for cover artists, if you're lucky you'll get assigned a good one, but what I've been seeing from major houses these days — okay, let me put it this way, in romance at least, I've seen A LOT of the no royalty art you can buy for $ 25 or so on the covers of the recent ones.

I'm living off my advance and savings and crossing my fingers that the royalty report I get every six months will say good things.

Knowing that authors are getting higher royalties on print books I feel even better for that decision.

Most of the bought off, but Apple didn't, was found guilty — thereby, as you can't collude on your own, as near to a guilty verdict as you'll get), Amazon have paid authors well (70 % royalties as opposed to about 17.5 %), with transparent accounting and timely payments every month with a two month delay — instead of 8 - 18 months publishers managed.

«They are usually labors of love and nobody gets rich, but they're often a good way to break in to print and lots of authors are very happy to stay with a small press where there is a more personal interaction with editors... Authors are responsible for their own marketing and there's generally no advance, but higher royalties.»

Because prices of POD books are inherently expensive, it's good for authors to have the option of cutting their royalty temporarily or for a certain group of people in order to get exposure.

I didn't get an advance on my soon - to - be-published novel, «Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart» — but I did get a somewhat better - than average royalty structure, and I'm content with that.