Sentences with phrase «halve author royalties»

Authors should pay special attention to deep discount clauses, which allow publishers to sharply reduce, even halve author royalties, if the sale price falls below a set percentage of the cover.

Not exact matches

With news this week that Amazon has added whole new international markets to its list of places where authors and publishers can earn a 70 % royalty on ebooks, the rumors and misinformed half - truths have begun swirling again as authors set out to decipher the terms.

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.

And we know that self - published authors are making seventy percent and traditionally published authors are making seventeen and a half percent, so even though the price for self - published books is lower it's more than made up for by the royalty.

The retailer said it had offered to fund 50 percent of an author pool that Hachette could allocate to mitigate the impact of the dispute on author royalties, if Hachette agreed to fund the other half.

While self - pubbed authors generally price their ebooks lower than $ 9.99 (the royalties they receive by Amazon are cut in half otherwise), indies have responded to the new ruling with an average 5 % price increase.

An author can self - pub a title at ACX and likely will make anywhere from $ 1000 — $ 0, and if it is a royalty share deal half of that goes to the narrator.

retailers will find it hard to keep 30 % of the consumer's dollar, publishers will find it nearly impossible to keep 75 % of what the retailers pay, and that any author who wants to compete seriously will have a cost structure that will often make a royalty rate taking even as much as half of it away worth considering.

When publishers sell copies of your book at higher - than - usual discounts, it's common that the author's contract will specify that she will earn «one - half the prevailing royalty rate» on those copies.

Just wondering, under what circumstances does and indie author lose half their royalties?

The royalties were more than they had been in the traditional business model, but in most instances still amounted to more than half of an author's earnings.

So they could afford to pay the authors the same royalty and still make more money, while lowering the price to the reader almost in half.

About a half a year ago, I found out about a new website called Babelcube, which matches indie authors and translators who would like to work together and split royalties on books sold.

It appeared to me that authors are getting ripped off as their royalties were nearly halved in the e-book model.

Self - published authors are no doubt familiar with this price constraint, as their royalties are cut in half if they price higher than this amount.

More than half of the indie authors in the study were enrolled in the Kindle Unlimited Full - Read Equivalent program (Kindle Select), which pays authors from a royalty pool based on how much of a book is read.

Rasenberger on eBook royalties — half of net proceeds should be paid, Authors Guild.

Total royalties across subscription and a la carte sales earned by KDP Select authors in the US are on track to more than double in the first half of 2015 compared to the same period last year.