That way you keep more control as well as
a larger share of the royalties.
The expense of printing, distribution, and storage is non-existent for e-books, so it makes sense for authors to keep
a larger share of the royalties.
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.
While the entrepreneurs / inventors who originally submitted the idea do not retain the rights to the product, they do receive
a larger share of the royalties.
A publisher has to change to a marketing juggernaut otherwise there is little interest in giving
them the large share of the royalties.
Not exact matches
Some
of the money will come from an increased
share of offshore oil and gas
royalties, but many coastal advocates say the industry should pay a
larger share.
Now, as a fiction writer, I'm not not surprised that Blume wants a
larger share of the market to open up; that means more potential
royalties.
If you give it away, and a
large share of this limited market takes advantage
of the deal, you could reduce the total sales and
royalties that you could realize.
Right off the heels
of announcing an expansion
of its Kindle Digital Text Platform to authors and publishers around the world, Amazon has announced that it will soon introduce a new 70 percent
royalty option in the program that will allow them to to earn a
larger share of revenue from each Kindle book they sell.
And, some authors may not like getting locked into
sharing their
royalties for 36 months (though there's nothing stopping you or your family members from backing the project, too — and many do, to keep a
larger portion
of their
royalties).
Largely, this is on the back
of paying writers a lower percentage
of profits, and keeping a
larger percentage
of those profits for the publisher (thus, the push for a greater
royalty share on ebooks, which I think will eventually happen...).