Sentences with phrase «in author royalties»

Agent Brian de Fiore insisted, as agents often do, that they should pay more in author royalties — and hire more editors — while Little, Brown Group Publisher David Shelley insisted that any savings would need to be spent fighting piracy.

Yes, Amazon is now penalizing shorter e-books in author royalties... but short e-books are still more effective in building reader loyalty, especially in nonfiction.

One author has spoken out, largely about the disparity in author royalties.

Which it then keeps 75 % of, and passes on only 25 % in author royalties.

Not exact matches

Authors under contract with Hachette publicly complained about a drop in their book sales, causing them to worry about a loss of royalties.

«These funds will permit Quantopian to make larger allocations and therefore pay larger royalties to authors of profitable algorithms,» said John Fawcett, CEO of Quantopian in a statement.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

Unfortunately, most e-publishers are pretty hush - hush about the amount of money their authors receive in royalties, but it's safe to say that it's probably more than mainline publishers offer, but not as much as you'd get from publishing your book yourself.

The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns — besides being an amazing book about justice and poverty, author royalties benefit World Vision

Though the postmodern author, unlike his medieval counterpart, doesn't refuse to sign the text (and receives, or should receive, royalties), there is a weakening of the authorial element that asserted itself for so long in the modern age.

I think the author meant «ascended» to the THRONE — as in seat of royalty, not «thrown» as in past tense of «to throw».

It was for this reason that Lord Ashcroft decided to donate all his author's royalties from his latest book, Heroes of the Skies, published in September 2012, to the RAF Benevolent Fund, which is the custodian of the new memorial.

Lord Ashcroft is donating all the author royalties from the sale of Special Forces Heroes to the charity Help for Heroes which provides support for the servicemen and women wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo saw his income decline in 2017, largely by the disappearance last year of royalties he had been getting on a 2014 book he authored that saw anemic sales.

That said, the one thing that I think IS clear in the data is that the standard 25 % of net digital royalty rate being paid by traditional publishers is not in the long - term best interest of the vast majority of authors they sign.

I'd love to have an agent if they were able to address the changes in the industry as they occur, rather than turning only to older models of publishing, e.g. arranging eBook contracts in which the eBooks are overpriced and the author receives a small royalty — ugh, who would want that?

The top royalty for authors was, as it is now, 15 % of the retail price, but there were fewer exceptions allowing the royalty to be cut, contractually or in practice.

By engaging in self - publishing through Infinity, the author retains all rights to the book and Infinity pays monthly royalties on every book sold — we earn our profit selling books to ever expanding niches and discount books to our authors who create and control the content.

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

I'm willing to send Howey and his team my royalty statements for months in order to help them come up with that estimate, and my guess is he could find many multiple authors who would be equally willing.

Amazon finds ways to screw authors too — such as paying royalties on e-books not for the sale of the book but for number of pages read — but, for the most part, I am in control and I like it this way.

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.

However, if you want to make the most money (especially on Amazon, which only allows authors to receive 70 percent in royalties if the book is priced at $ 2.99 or higher — $ 1.99 and $ 0.99 books only allow authors a 35 percent royalty rate), then $ 4.99 appears to be the best price point for selling a good amount of books (though far less than with a lower price point) while making the most in profit.

Recognizing that this could cause consternation when the royalty reports came out and the numbers didn't match, Amazon sent out an email explaining that for July, at least, all downloads through the KU program would result in payouts to their authors.

I would estimate that the average annual income for self - published authors is slightly lower now and, having seen a number of authors quit over the last couple of years in order to get full time jobs because of financial problems, it hasn't gotten any easier to make ends meet on just book royalties.

In a letter to Hachette authors and agents, posted by CNN's Brian Stelter, Pietsch wrote that the company will get «full responsibility for the consumer prices of our ebooks,» and that «the percent of revenue on which Hachette authors» ebook royalties are based will not decrease under this agreement.»

«In this way, Unlimited Publishing functions like a traditional royalty publisher, but by using CreateSpace, we can slash the cost of getting books to print, which benefits our business and our authors.»

For example, if total borrows of all participating KDP Select books are 100,000 in a month funded at $ 500,000 and an author's book was borrowed 1,500 times, they will earn $ 7,500 in additional royalties from KDP Select in that month.

To upload your book to Amazon, you'll simply need your ebook file (the MOBI version in this case), your bank account and tax ID information (so Amazon can deposit your royalties) and your book info (author, title, description, keywords, category, etc.), also known as metadata.

These are the same publishers who, in this day and age of instant communication and RFID tracking and technology have convinced their authors that there is no way to do an actual sales accounting for the purposes of figuring royalty payments.

It is no lie that an author receives a larger share of royalties in the digital space in self - publishing, but there's still a common misconception there.

It's the Amazon minimum price they require in order to participate in the 70 % author royalty program and it went into effect last year, thus Konrath's price raises.

In response to literary agents who said no major publisher would ever offer a single royalty rate that brought authors more money than the current standard, Rasenberger said that the goal is to get a conversation going.

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.

It also includes complete creative development, including editing and design, softcover, hardcover and ebook, 60 % author royalties, all ISBNs, 20 copies of your book, high - quality printed books by LSI, a marketing program, as well as coaching and training of the author in a collaborative manner.

Morgan James has always specialized in publishing entrepreneurial authors, offering small advances and higher royalties, and having authors commit to buying a certain number of books at an author rate.

Gitman and Joehnk claim they are owed roughly $ 470,000 in additional royalties in total, and that their fellow Pearson authors are likely owed millions more.

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.

And authors, of course, stand to lose out in a world where there are fewer sales and lower royalty payments.

Pointing out that «authors remain the only essential part of the creation of a book and it is in everyone's interests to ensure they can make a living», it tells publishers that «unfair contract terms, including reduced royalty rates, are a major part of the problem».

Currently in Japan most authors have the exact same royalty rate for print and e-Books.

As soon as he receives $ 5000 in royalties s / he also has the one additional right to vote for the Guild Board, which is the only thing that changes between the Authors Guild of America membership when entering at the $ 500 level or at the $ 5000 for Indie Authors.

Of course, this could be a sign of something less dire, namely that Amazon will work with larger files and let authors sell overly long titles at 50 % royalty in order to make up for what the company is footing in terms of file transfer fees and hosting.

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.

In filings, the authors note that textbook prices have climbed 82 % over the last decade, but that royalty payments for authors have risen only modestly.

In 2012 over 1,000 authors filed a class action lawsuit against Harlequin, alleging that they did not pay the authors the full amount of the agreed upon royalty for digital titles.

But in the case of royalties from the Swiss branch, apparently the authors feel they have not received the full amount due to them.

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.

A recent lawsuit was filed against them stating that they misrepresents themselves, luring authors in with claims that its books can compete with «traditional publishers,» offering «greater speed, higher royalties, and more control for its authors.»

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.