Sentences with phrase «gives authors a royalty»

While no publisher can give authors the royalty percentage they get from KDP and other online platforms (our overhead makes that impossible) we can definitely compromise at a fair level; Bell Bridge pays 40 percent net on ebook royalties.

Not exact matches

They can decide «Hey, we're giving our authors too much in royalties» and cut your rate, just like that.

Authors who enter the KDP Select Program agree to give Amazon 90 days exclusivity and in turn Amazon has created a monthly fund that pays authors a royalty for every book borrowed from the Kindle Lending LAuthors who enter the KDP Select Program agree to give Amazon 90 days exclusivity and in turn Amazon has created a monthly fund that pays authors a royalty for every book borrowed from the Kindle Lending Lauthors a royalty for every book borrowed from the Kindle Lending Library.

I buy them at my author discount of 35 %, and sell them on at full, or near full price, so my purchases count as sales — 10 % gives me # 1.46 towards my royalties — plus I make around # 7.50 each copy if I sell at full price.

The revenue will be split between Amazon and Plympton, «which then gives a generous royalty to its authors,» says Lee.

that you, the author, can make decisions about the design and content of your book, determine your royalty and give us non-exclusive rights which can be terminated at any time.

Vook, which recently announced its acquisition of both Byliner and Booklr, has rebranded itself as Pronoun and has shifted focus to working directly with authors with an unheard of free model that gives 100 % of the royalties to authors.

According to several sources, Amazon has reached out to some authors with an interesting deal: list your book in the Prime Reading library for six months, and we'll give you $ 5,000 US upfront instead of royalties.

So... your assumption is that Prime Reading gives greater exposure than KU and that's why an author should forego royalties?

The author has to do all this themselves at their own expense, and in return Amazon will shaft them with a 35 % royalty rate (the 50 % you quote is NET, which is rich given the only place it will be sold is on Amazon, so Amazon will take their 30 % cut and then take another half of what's left) for an ebook.

They are giving an advance of $ 1,500 and a 50 % eBook royalty rate to authors who successfully woo the crowd to get behind their next title.

This growth indicates a forward movement in the format, giving even more credence to the disputes currently taking place between retailers and publishers regarding sales agreements, and between publishers and their authors over royalties.

Given Amazon's grossly sub-market royalty rates — outside the $ 2.99 - 9.99 price window it only pays 35 % versus Apple's 70 % — I'd suggest that authors leave Kindle Writeon what it is now, a ghost town, and do their writing prep on Wattpad.com.

Pubslush allows authors to take pre-orders for their books in order to generate the revenue they need for professional publishing services, while Pentian lets donors share in the royalties of the book for the first three years, giving authors the funds they need to generate titles.

If authors are willing to accept 35 % royalties then Amazon will happily give it to them.

In addition, Findaway Voices gives authors full control of pricing, and royalties are paid based on the list price.

And its promise in October to give authors who self - publish through its Kindle store a 70 % royalty rate, far greater than the 25 % in a standard publishing contract, spread fear and loathing throughout

One of the effects of that provision is the author has given up the right to enjoin Author Solutions from selling his or her book and must accept royalty payments author has given up the right to enjoin Author Solutions from selling his or her book and must accept royalty payments Author Solutions from selling his or her book and must accept royalty payments alone.

All of this is pure conjecture, but right now, I'm not convinced that the $ 9.99 subscription will completely pay for the royalties given to authors.

And that is the question of royalties because the publishers not only are saying well, we have the right to the book; they're also saying, we have the right to say how much royalty we will give an author.

What if those same stores react by dropping royalty rates (I know I wouldn't be making a living on ebook sales alone if Amazon suddenly decided to give indie authors 20 % instead of 70 %)?

I realised they didn't do anything for me I couldn't either do myself or hire done (and contracting someone was MUCH cheaper than giving away 60 % of my royalties for 5 years — the only way this is a bargain is if you plan to sell small numbers of books, something no author should have in their plan.)

My latest Publishers Weekly column announces the launch - date for my long - planned «Shut Up and Take My Money» ebook platform, which allows traditionally published authors to serve as retailers for their publishers, selling their ebooks direct to their fans and pocketing the 30 % that Amazon would usually take, as well as the 25 % the publisher gives back to them later in royalties.

They used to operate their own store where people could order books and authors received a much higher royalty, and it also gave authors the ability to promote discount codes so readers and distributors could order discounted copies.

Amazon has a potentially industry - changing idea on its hands here with Kindle Scout, as the system provides a way to give books a stamp of approval that can cut out the noise and sheer volume of self - published titles out there, and yet it manages to provide a better deal to authors than most big publishing house deals, including a 5 - year term on publishing rights granted to Kindle Press, a $ 1,500 advance, 50 % royalties paid on e-book sales, built - in Amazon.com marketing and what Amazon terms «easy rights reversion.»

Why would they give up all their ebook revenue during negotiations when people might be buying the Hachette books from other online retailers now and the authors are getting their royalties from those sales?

Unless somewhere in the contract the author agrees to this unknown amount of copies of their book being given away, I don't know how Amazon can just send them out without royalty payment to the author.

What this means is that an author who opts into the service is locking a book into it for 90 days, during which they agree to give up any royalties they might have received through other sources.

While these folks work out their kinks, BookTango is giving author 100 % of their royalties when the publish their e-books through July 4.

If you look at the standard hardcover book, it normally retails for around $ 27.99 and gives a $ 5.67 profit to the publisher and $ 4.20 royalty to author.

They've altered the business model to remove the additional royalties that vanity presses were notorious for collecting (above the upfront costs they charged), and given more control to authors.

The announcement brings the list of countries where readers can buy ebooks up to 28, and still give authors a 70 % royalty.

Harlequin may be Canadian, but are not really involved in eBooks except for their imprint Karina Press which is all about e-Books but there is a running debate if they screw their authors over with royalties an never give advances.

But is this too little, too late for an industry in which authors are routinely thumbing their noses at giving up as much as 85 % of their royalties for the privilege of being «accepted» by the traditional industry?

I definitely like the open approach of Smashwords over this kindle locking that Amazon does, but since that Wall Street article stated Amazon is giving unusally high royalties to authors (and since they're the far more popular platform I guess buying there might snowball into additional readers for you through better chart positioning) I might be willing to overcome my distaste for their unpleasant kindleness for once.

Not necessarily to give in to whatever Amazon are asking [1](although Howey does specifically ask Pietsch to accept Amazon's offer of a fund to pay authors and royalties lost as a result of Amazon's actions), but to step up and compromise, somehow.

Royalty Portal — give your authors and rightsholders their royalty information Royalty Portal — give your authors and rightsholders their royalty information royalty information online!

Where a mainstream author gets a 15 % royalty, Amazon gives the indie author a 70 % royalty.

So, authors who expect to see sales for the long term are best advised to do most of the initial work themselves or hire freelancers and pay a one - time fee — as opposed to continuing to give a larger portion of royalties to a service provider for this up - front work.

To give you an idea of the money you can expect to make from each copy sold, let's look at the royalties offered to both self - published and traditionally published authors.

Not being aware of these tools, some authors pay intermediaries to format their book, either spending hundreds or thousands of dollars, or giving up a cut of their royalties, both of which are costly and unnecessary propositions.

Most traditional publishers will give the author an advance against royalties.

Because traditional publishers are often foolish in how they handle ebooks — insisting on seeing them as contenders for paper sales rather than a different market entirely and generally overpricing them, in addition to generally giving the authors a pittance of a royalty on them.

In addition to the ability to distribute ebooks to all of the retail platforms while giving the authors 100 % of the net royalties of the books, minus the built - in percentages that the retailers earn, HostBaby offers authors their own uniquely branded web space for the fans to find information, sample chapters, cover art, and more.

The royalty program for the Direct to Author program is fairly solid, giving more than most other websites distributing ebooks.

This will allow authors to keep 100 % of the royalties and be able to tap into the support network Bookbaby has established and they also give discounts on cover art.

One way that more authors are enticed by forward thinking publishers is that the royalty packages from ebook - only or digital - first publishers are often more lucrative for the authors, given that much of the expensive risk has been eliminated by going digital at the onset.

With more than twenty presses already working with 0s & 1s and with a mission to provide DRM - free, multiple - file bundles to readers while giving authors an unheard of 80 % royalty, the company stands to make dramatic changes in an already evolving landscape.

While some critics may say that the authors are forfeiting 20 % of their potential royalties (given the 70 % offered through simple KDP self - publishing), the advance and marketing options are slated to make up for that.

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.