Sentences with phrase «increasing author royalties»

Most of all, I applaud Toni for not only inking this deal but for increasing author royalties for e-book sales, something she couldn't have done had she kept their digital sales limited to just the Baen e-books site.

Kobo Increases Author Royalty Rates to 80 % This Fall — Kobo recently unveiled their self - publishing platform called «Writing Life.»

Not exact matches

(She's clearly a genius, racking up the royalties for a recently published novel by an author she discovered, and issuing directives such as, «Let's increase the font size two points for the print edition.»)

But under some «deep discount» clauses, the author's royalty would suddenly plummet to 15 % of that $ 4.40 — just 66 cents — thereby magically increasing the publisher's take to $ 3.74.

Amazon is often predicted to become a monopoly that will increase prices to consumers and cut royalties to authors.

HarperCollins is excited to reach an innovative partnership with Scribd that monetizes its audience through traditional retail and a subscription offer for our backlist titles,» «HarperCollins authors will benefit from extended reach, increased discovery, and improved royalty streams.»

Third, the fund for these books is ever increasing, so in the future an author may actually receive more royalty than if a reader had purchased the book for the full retail price.

After complaints about the improper royalty payments, Ellora's Cave attempted to modify its publishing contracts with its authors, including Josephson, by unilaterally informing the authors that Ellora's Cave would begin paying an increased royalty rate (45 % or 40 %) but pay the royalty rate based on the sales price, which was often substantially lower than the cover price.

We need the authors to work with us to promote their books online and if we're increasing sales they're making more money in royalties.

Do they have the power to increase marketing and exposure or is it just self - publishing where the author does more work and never sees royalties?

The top ten KDP Select authors earned over $ 70,000 in the month of December from their participation in the Kindle Owners» Lending Library, a 30 % increase on top of the royalties they earned from their paid sales on the same titles in the same period.

Furthermore, sales through HarperCollins» website are likely to make up only a very small percentage of an author's total book sales, meaning the royalty increase wouldn't necessarily account to much.

Today the company announced a 10 % royalty increase from September to November 30th, bringing the total amount garnered by the author to 80 %.

The same names keep being bandied about — the Bella Andres, the Hugh Howeys, the Barbara Freethys — but there are an ever - increasing number of authors who are not only pleased with their self - publishing decisions, but they're being hailed as savvy businesspeople for not being tricked into turning over their entire livelihoods to the traditional model and its sad royalty share.

Publishers will try to hold the line on their 25 % net ebook royalty structures, which means big authors will see their royalties suffer as prices drop and as the unit sales advantage of low prices decreases, and as the disadvantage of high prices increases.

The event was the grand unveiling of KDP Select, a program that was being sold to indie authors as a way of increasing exposure and possibly bumping up royalties as well.

Babelcube works with a royalty split model, in which the author's share increases the better the book sells.

One company claims its high pricing is author - friendly because it increases potential royalties.

Both European and US authors working directly with Amazon can now access a royalty of 70 % of the cover price on their titles (as against c. 7 % working through a publisher) which increases the chance that authors may choose this route.

Well for starters they are increasing the royalties amount they are paying authors who use Amazons Self - Publishing Digital Text Platform, which doubles Amazons prior offerings.

In addition, authors» royalties will be increased by 25 %.

As of Wednesday publishers and authors will now be the people sole determining the price of eBooks under this new business model and increased the royalties distributed per each sale.

«Other highlights include: an increase in the royalty rate (65 %) for eBooks priced $ 10 and above on all copies sold, and the ability for authors to set eBook pre-orders 12 months in advance.

Pronoun is a free self - publishing platform and they have just announced that they have increased the royalty rates for indie authors.

As those clauses are usually only obtained by rockstar authors, it would be prohibitively expensive to increase digital royalties.

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.

They would profit from selling books to the library outright, authors would collect royalties easily, and authors could see an increase in discoverability.

Are the Random House authors going to see a 300 % increase in their royalty checks?

In an increasingly competitive market, where companies such as iUniverse, Blurb and ColdTreePress offer variations on the self - publishing theme, Booksurge has this month increased the amount of royalties it is paying authors... from 25 % to 35 % of the cover price.

The first is a collection of over one million stock images that authors can use for free in order to create their book covers, and the other is an increased royalty rate and the pending switch to monthly payouts of those royalties.

According Amazon's statement, the top 10 KDP Select authors earned a total of $ 70,000 in December, which is a 30 % increase in royalties from what these same authors earned from sales for the same titles.

These top ten authors earned a 449 % increase of royalties from November to December 2011, including both sales and royalties from the lending library.

When you self publish through Author Agency you do not have to increase the retail price of your book in order to make a decent royalty percentage or to make a profit on each sale.

I'm a member of a writer's critique group and we have a commercially published author who is actually leaving her publisher to be her own publisher, increasing her royalties by an order of magnitude.

I want to know what he is doing to increase the royalty rate given to authors, especially on digital books, whether the author is just breaking in or has been around for years.

There are huge opportunities to be had for authors to both increase readerships and make money from potential advances and on - going royalties in foreign territories (not to mention publishing in different formats, TV and Film, media rights, permissions and so on).

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.

Maybe a lower price might get someone to try a series with a slightly increased price for other books in that series, but with the higher royalty percentage on each unit and less cuts into margin, an author can afford to keep the cost down.

In 2010, we saw e-book royalties for self - published authors (through Amazon, B&N, Apple, and most other outlets) increase from 35 % to 70 %, which compares quite favorably to the 8 % authors used to get from publishers for paperback sales, or the 17.5 % (net) they normally pay for e-book royalties.

A royalties escalator increases the author's royalty rate in steps, based on units sold.

«Known» authors, presumably defined by Shatzkin as those whose books can be found at Costco and airport kiosks, will see their income rise from increased digital sales, even at a lower price and even at their collusional 17.5 % royalty rate.

Why would this same 16 % increase not also apply to how much the author earns (unless there is some special discount clause in the traditional publishing contract that lowers their royalty — they wouldn't dare do that — would they)?

I find it interesting that the increase in their profit ($ 2.20) is noticeably higher than the decrease in the royalty that they pay the author ($ 1.58).

It's a real benefit to the author because of each dollar increase I get approximately 75 % and that's in addition to the base royalty paid on the selling price of the book.

Kindle authors are for the most part crying they see almost no sales and royalties yet the raw numbers show since the Kindle debuted Amazon has increased its yearly revenue almost 100 Billion dollars.

At the same time, I studied business in college and I know we take on the risk of letting Amazon getting too big and then using that power to increase their margins as they shrink the royalties of authors published through them.

After complaints about the improper royalty payments, Ellora's Cave attempted to modify its publishing contracts with its authors, including Jacobs, by unilaterally informing the authors that Ellora's Cave would begin paying an increased royalty rate (45 % or 40 %) but pay the royalty rate based on the sales price, which was often substantially lower than the cover price.

With the rapid growth of the KU program, the amount paid into the «fund» that pays authors royalties on their books borrowed through the program has increased from $ 2M per month to over $ 10M per month.

If a publisher sees a low royalty is going to be reported to an author, the publisher can make a business decision about whether it's worth $ 2,000 to keep the rights going and simply increase the royalty paid by $ 2,000.

They redesigned their entire publishing web site and increased royalties to the authors.