Sentences with phrase «high royalty rates»

In June last year, it was reported that while Spotify passed the 140 million monthly active user mark, the Stockholm, Sweden - based company was still losing money due to the low volume of paying subscribers versus the high royalty rates it paid to artists every time their song was played on the streaming service.

Yes, authors will be looking at those clauses about digital rights in contracts very closely, especially with the high royalty rates for the self - published ebooks.

Coupled with high royalty rates (70 % compared to 10 - 15 % for traditional publishers), it is the perfect platform for a fledgling writer to make a living, and if fate agrees, even a fortune.

It's a lot of freedom and it means a lot when the company that controls 80 % or so of ebook sales introduces such high royalty rates.

Instead of giving them an advance, they give some fairly high royalty rates.

You may get the highest royalty rate through your publisher's storefront, but if people have a dedicated eReader or a favorite store, they're not likely to want to go through the hassle of buying outside of that.

Smashwords also has some perks that make me wish the outfit had made more inroads into the ebook market on its own merits (as a seller and not just a distributor), such as the ability to issue coupons, to offer affiliates a greater percentage of the sales price, and the fact that authors receive a higher royalty rate there than at any of the other stores.

Can you still take advantage of the higher royalty rate by combining them into one ebook anthology or collection?

Royalties: Small publishers often pay a higher royalty rate than the big publishers, because they have lower costs.

As you can see in the chart above, for prices below $ 2.99, for a book the length of mine in this genre, they expect me to gross more at $ 1.99 than at $ 0.99 — but much more (because of the higher royalty rate) at $ 2.99.

Now Apple and its new homeboy Smashwords is luring authors, not with a higher royalty rate (60 % vs 70 % with Amazon), but by allowing authors to price their books at $ 0.99 or $ 1.99, which many authors have done on Kindle in order to generate more downloads and find more readers.

Their cade of Authors were kept happy with some of the highest royalty rates in the industry, around 30 % of each book sold.

E-publishing can have the advantage of getting yourself faster to market (the big publishers may take up to 18 months from 1st draft to release), higher royalty rates, but may not have the track record of a brick - and - mortar publishing house.

There is a transmission fee for the higher royalty rate and, if it remains when you put the title on sale through this program, you want to make sure you aren't going to eat up all your royalties by lowering the price.)

Yes, we could potentially have our cake (a traditional publisher with possible bookstore placement) and eat it too (not give up the higher royalty rates for the long tail sales).

Not only do you rack up more units sold in a shorter period, but those sales can get your book on the old royalty escalator for a higher royalty rate if you signed your contract before 12 March 2014.

International Author Support - We make it possible for authors all over the world to get their audiobooks published while retaining the benefits of self - publishing - such as higher royalty rates.

Since translators carry the risk of sales just as much as the author does when working indie, the risk has to be compensated with higher royalty rates when paying lower flat fees up front.

Whether the audiobook is being distributed exclusively through ACX or non-exclusively (ACX exclusive distribution pays a much higher royalty rate)

Instead of large advances, authors are offered significantly higher royalty rates.

We aren't going to pressure publishers to pay higher royalty rates and offer fairer contracts by pleading with them (and we have yet to see any organized attempt from writers» groups to effect these changes).

Not that writers are * paying * trad publishers to be published, but in the sense that our time is worth money and (possibly) more income (certainly higher royalty rates) if we self - pub instead of choosing trad pub.

The self - publishing and make - on - demand company meets the same publishing need for authors that other sites can offer, but it also boasts higher royalty rates, low member book pricing, and distribution to thousands of retail and wholesale outlets.

If you sell enough copies to jump into the higher royalty rate category, you'll get more, of course.

It will almost certainly say that the higher royalty rate applies on full - priced sales.

They had in place a hybrid publishing agreement with some of their authors that offered creative terms — usually in which the author paid for some or all of their production and print costs in exchange for higher royalty rates.

Sexton — under whose direction F+W Media's springtime Writer's Digest Conference in New York will be staged April 5 - 7 (information to come soon)-- told us that self - publishing authors were the ones who, on the WD / DBW survey, demanded from publishers the highest royalty rates on e-books and the greatest advances on royalties.

(None of which says anything about the relative size or importance of these two sites, or how Amazon could easily deliver more profit to my bank account even at the higher royalty rate by virtue of its scale and prominence.)

So, the commenter dissing those who decide to self - publish to get the higher royalty rates is exactly the same person, generically speaking, that the original blogger said we shouldn't really be listening to — one of those who are successful and who are, as a result, the exception in this industry and not the rule.

They didn't rewrite contracts or change the terms for new contracts to show the higher prices they were getting, an increase that could have led to a higher royalty rate for the authors.

Second, books sold at the higher royalty rate receive 70 % of the SALE price, not the list price you set, and Amazon checks other retailers and will discount your titles to match the lowest prices it finds elsewhere.

In return, they pay a much higher royalty rate (60 %, I believe) on all sales after the publishing costs are covered (can be as little as 1,000 copies until it starts being profitable through POD printing).

Expanded sales reporting is now standard for all BookBaby authors, as well as enhanced BookShop ™ eCommerce pages that return the highest royalty rates in publishing.

They sold so few discounted books that — even with the higher royalty rate — they barely broke even after deducting marketing costs, and they saw little discernible bump in sales or borrows after the promotion.

It's almost certain that ebooks, because they're often self published, and even when traditionally published have higher royalty rates than print, make up a substantially higher fraction of author earnings than they do of consumer spending.

I wanted to be able to adjust the retail price as I see fit, and I wanted the high royalty rate self - publishing gives me.

Publisher Scott Pack said in return it would like to see a higher royalty rate offered.

I'm sure your agent wants your material to be as polished as it can possibly be, but if she truly represented your best interests and not those of the publishers, she would get you better terms in your contract, including a higher royalty rate.

As we get into royalties in the self - publishing world, I'm going to specifically be looking at Amazon since it's the most popular and has some of the highest royalty rates.

We are author - friendly, and pay the highest royalty rates of any publisher we're aware of (and charge no fees other than the royalty split).

Offline, on terra firma (to whatever degree it's firma — see our Barnes & Noble section), the publisher will have provided a sharply delineated capability that may well warrant a higher royalty rate.

My guess is there'll be no option from Amazon for higher royalty rates which would just push up the price of an ebook to all readers, regardless of whether they value the audio feature.

If you are confident that there's a market for your book, you have a vision of exactly how it should be published, a go get «em attitude and want a higher royalty rate as a reward, then Unbound could be just the place for you.

Firstly, although you mention the lower eBook pricing, you failed to discuss the higher royalty rates which more than make up for the price reduction (on the author's side).

That is one of the highest royalty rates in the publishing industry.

Epublishing and in particular the higher royalty rates offered by Amazon and Smashwords have changed that.

Higher royalty rates are possible with self - published e-books.

The benefit of hiring someone to create your ebook and distributing it on your own, is, if using Smashwords, you'll only make 60 % of your sale price through B&N, Kobo, Sony, and Apple (less if your title sells to a market outside the US), whereas, each of these sellers offers a higher royalty rate if you distribute directly through them (from 65 % -80 %).

Our store offers the highest royalty rates of any of the stores.

And while readers are going to be able to get more and more books for less money, authors are going to make a lot more money because of the higher royalty rates.