Sentences with phrase «mentioned author royalties»

Not exact matches

IngramSpark distributes books to all online retailers including Amazon, but as mentioned above, their royalties (or publisher compensation as IS terms the amount paid to self - published authors) for Amazon are a bit lower than CreateSpace.Both companies distribute to brick - and - mortar stores.

Two different authors mentioned not receiving royalties or receiving pitiful amounts, leading them to believe there may have been deeper financial struggles involved.

Some successful authors, like Michael Port, have mentioned that they devote their book royalties to charity, as Michael revealed during a recent Published & Profitable interview available here.

Some self - published authors have received movie deals and created seven figure royalties, not to mention millions of readers who now recognize the author's name and enjoy their work.

For example, he notes that «low - cost / high - margin ebooks have been a bright spot» for publishers without mentioning that those high margins are due, in part, to publishers» refusal to raise digital royalty rates for authors above 25 percent.

But then many authors I follow mentioned that they get the best royalties on their Kindle books, so I gave up and began to switch from epubs to mobi.

The other valid criticism you mentioned is based on the observation that some traditionally - published authors receive advances that don't ever earn out, thus they are effectively receiving higher - than - 25 % net royalty rates and our spreadsheets and pie charts don't capture that.

The first is that Big 5 authors get substantially more in advances than the standard royalty rates would suggest (40 % of gross was one figure mentioned).

, they mentioned authors and royalties.

Explaining in a little more detail than in my previous comment (I'm still recovering from a head cold)... I guess you can say that I'm one of those «successful indie authors» Randy mentioned because this year, my royalties are in the upper five - figure range.

Not to flog a dead horse, but since you mentioned the positive and negative aspects of Kindle Unlimited (from your point of view), I think that excluding the royalty aspect of the program removes one of the positive reasons (from an author's perspective) to participate in the program.

Authors get around 10 % of gross royalties, as mentioned.

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).

So far, the sales of their 12 - author box set as previously mentioned have gone over 284,000 copies generating $ 120K for authors and the publisher in royalties.

Author Nick Harkaway handily has picked up where we left off in that weekend look at ebook royalties I've mentioned at Writer Unboxed.

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).

There is no mention of fees at the Kindle Worlds page for authors, but I bet you there will be fees up the wazoo, and the vast majority of authors will pay more in fees than they ever get in royalties.

Not only can they not rewrite the rules of DP, they're also can't justify the high cover prices, not to mention they're not offering authors digital industry standard royalties.

Admit they aren't worth the huge chunk of royalties they feel entitled to take out of each and every author's pie, not to mention the horrific contracts with non-competes, etc. etc..