Sentences with phrase «literary agency commission»

Our standard literary agency commission rate is 15 % for sales in North America and 20 % for foreign sales (in some of the small foreign markets outside North America the commission rate is 25 %).

The second literary agency commission is for foreign sales.

Most book agents have two different literary agency commission percentages that they put in their standard author / agent agreement.

The first literary agency commission is for domestic sales.

Not exact matches

As a legitimate agency (book publishing's leading literary agency), we only commission deals we do for a client.

I can't speak for other literary agencies, but we tend to feel that it is wrong of a literary agency to try and commission works self - published by an author when the agent did not play a role in that self - publication.

Since then, I've been writing steadily for major houses for good money, I'm in better control of my career, I have better contracts (a literary lawyer now negotiates my contractual terms; she does a better job and costs me a small fraction of what I was paying in agency commissions), my advances have improved, and even my foreign subrights income has improved.

Literary agencies will usually have what's called an «Agent Clause» inserted in your publishing contract, listing the agency and / or agent as the official «Agent - of - Record» for the deal, along with the appropriate literary agent commission and the agent's contact information.

Most literary agencies collect a standard 15 % literary agent commission (more about this in a moment) if and when they sell your book.

The normal commission for a literary agency is 15 % of all money associated with an author's book that the literary agency was directly (or sometimes indirectly) responsible for.

A legitimate literary agency will keep a standard commission structure that is in keeping with what every other literary agency maintains as their commission structure.

The literary agency agreement is usually for a term of a few years and states that during the term of working together, the literary agency is entitled to its commission on deals the agency performs for the client.

Similarly, if a literary agency keeps a lower commission structure than the norm, it demonstrates that they are attempting to undercut the business of larger / legitimate literary agencies for a chance at a larger piece of business.