Sentences with phrase «month in royalties»

This year we went from making maybe 1k a month in royalties, to 10 - 15 K a month, most of that from our self - published titles.

I got in touch with him and his agent, Kristin Nelson, and learned that he was making $ 50,000 a month in royalties, and had a host of foreign deals as well as the movie deal.

No matter if you're a Beginner or earning 100k a month in royalties plan your launch and run your business like a boss; being a creative is no excuse.

I make five figures a month in royalties.

I began self - publishing about seven years ago, and at one point was grossing $ 3,000 per month in royalties.

Not exact matches

Luckily (okay, beyond luckily, sorry), I was booked on the same flight the following month for a conference, and I relieved all the glory of being treated like traveling royalty the entire time I was in transit.

Some speculate that the live streaming service will shift its e-sports focus (in Chinese) and use the new money to build a pan-entertainment platform encompassing entertainment programs, variety shows, e-sports and more, as the exorbitant costs related to purchases of e-sports tournament royalties, salaries of starring presenters (the signing bonus of a famous presenter can be as high as tens of millions of RMB) and content distribution network charges (can be as high as RMB 20 million every month) have made e-sports a cash - burning business.

Conditionally approved by Ottawa late last month, the proposed C$ 36 - billion Pacific NorthWest LNG plant on B.C.'s North Coast brings the promise of thousands of Canadian jobs and billions in annual taxes and royalties.

Ligand is averaging one new partnership deal a month, and two new drugs were approved by the FDA in Q3 and will soon be generating royalties.

Earlier this month West Australian Premier Mark McGowan said a bank tax would raise more than $ 800 million over four years and required serious consideration after a proposed increase to the gold royalty rate in the state, expected to raise $ 392 million, was blocked.

We spent six months answering questions non-stop about everything from financial projections, to pressure - testing different scenarios in terms of royalty rates or partnerships, and what things would look like in the market at difference scales.

During these final months, La Doncella, in her early teens, would have been treated like royalty.

Ahead of its UK release later this month, Lionsgate has debuted the first poster and trailer for director Anna Rose Holmer's award - winning drama The Fits; take a look below... THE FITS is a psychological portrait of 11 - year - old Toni (Royalty Hightower)-- a tomboy assimilating to a tight - knit dance team in Cincinnati's West End.

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.

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.

The idea for a flat royalty rate came up during a panel at last month's BookExpo America in Chicago.

After that, you'll see pre-order units listed in the Prior Months» Royalties report, under the «Pre-order» transaction type.

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.

Why must an author ask for permission for rights that should automatically revert back to them and undergo a lengthy process over another 12 - 18 months where their digital rights are tied to royalty statements and definitions of books in print?

In the first two full months of sales (Sept. / Oct.), I received royalties on 10,134 copies.

So the money is front - loaded in a big spike, with some possible royalties a year or two down the road, paid at six - month intervals.

Stephanie Bond: «If I had any qualms about leaving traditional publishing, they were settled last fall: the royalty check I received from my publisher representing six months of sales for over 40 projects was less than I'd made the previous day in KDP royalties for about 12 books.»

Contemporary romance writer Kathy Dunnehoff earned nearly $ 9,000 from the KDP Select fund in February, and her royalties from paid sales increased more than 18 times month over month.

There the author is lucky to be able to figure out royalty statements for how many books sold and were held as reserves against return in a six - month period a year after publication.

Thus even though your book was printed in one month, but sold in another, a royalty might actually show up in the prior month for that sale.

According to Amazon, books enrolled in KDP Select in July earned 77 % more royalties from paid sales than the three months before they were enrolled in the program.

For any Unit sold to a Customer, we will pay you the applicable Content License Royalty based on the List Price of the Unit: (a) within 31 days after the end of the month in which the Unit sold for physical Units sold through the Amazon Properties; and (b) within 60 days after the end of the month in which the Unit is sold for physical Units sold through Expanded Distribution.

The book has been selling very well; I have already, in just two months, received a substantial royalty check.

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.

If eBook becomes primary format, there is no need to be 6 months behind (so as to account for returns according to publishers) in the generating of statements and the paying of royalties earned.

So far in August, KDP Select books that enrolled in July earned 77 % more royalties from paid sales than the three months before they were enrolled in the program.

Amazon was even criticized for its traditional publishing arm, notably for changing the model under which it paid its authors, abandoning the time - honored and tired quarterly payment system in favor of paying its authors their royalties once a month, just like it pays its self - published authors.

Membership is limited to authors who are published by an «established» US publisher (re: well - known, not necessarily independent), freelancers who are published by general circulation periodicals, or self - published authors who earn at least $ 5000 in royalties in an 18 - month period.

That means $ 4,000 to $ 5,000 in royalties — those lovelies that are paid twice a year, with a deferral of three months after each closing period; and usually with a hefty percentage hold back for reserves — meaning books get turned back and the publisher wants to cover its tush and not overpay you (and come knocking on your door to now pay them).

Ordinary people who are raking in extraordinary royalties each and every month with self - publishing and e-commerce.

He wrote and published two more books in November and generated Amazon royalties of $ 427 for the month.

From September to February, count»em, SIX MONTHS, Mark made a whopping $ 10.92 cents in royalties.

was First you paid out $ 400 in expenses, then sixty to ninety days later you received $ 179.40 in royalties, reducing your loss to $ 220.60 but you had two to three months out of pocket $ 400.

In English, that means that we're sacrificing the higher royalty numbers from other publishing options over the long term for a one to three month display of our book buried on a bookshelf with low sales expected.

One of the first major changes that CreateSpace's parent company Amazon made to disrupt the traditional publishing following the launch of Amazon Publishing was to announce that it would no longer require its authors to wait for quarterly royalty payments, and would no longer be paying three months in arrears.

«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.

For most authors in traditional publishing writing a book every 12 - 18 months gives them * maybe * a $ 10,000 - $ 15,000 advance, plus royalties, if they manage to earn out.

In the past, he said, he received royalty cheques of up to # 30,000 for a six - month period.

As I pointed out above, questions about royalties paid to Ann in 2013 (or even earlier) are crucial to understanding whether any checks issued to her in the first 9 months of 2014 were in fact covering payments due in 2014 — no matter how much Ellora's Cave wants to flail madly in their filings and say prior years are not relevant.

What many aspiring authors don't know is that (1) the shelf - life of new books in brick and mortar bookstores is 2 - 6 weeks; (2) traditional authors get 8 - 15 % royalties vs. 70 % royalties for those self - published; (3) almost 30 % of hardcover and paperbacks end up in landfills; (4) the timeframe between book contract to actual publication at traditional houses is 18 - 24 months; and (5) agents are rarely interested in authors who only have one book up their sleeves.

But, overall, using the KDP select program to launch our new books has increased our Kindle royalties from double digits per month in 2011 to now consisting of more than half of our entire income.

«It's also become a meaningful way to grow royalties for authors like Patricia Hester, who sold less than 200 books in 2011 prior to joining KDP Select and has now earned over $ 36,000 from KDP Select in one month as readers have discovered her books through this service.»

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 month for Amazon's controversial KDP Select program has come to a close and a number of authors will be eagerly awaiting their royalty checks to see how their books fared in the Kindle Owners» Lending Library.

All of these allegations seem to stem from sales that took place leading up to 2004, well before Harlequin established its ebook imprint, Carina Press, a digital publisher that led the way among publishers for offering unheard of author royalties, doing away with advances in exchange for higher sales payouts, and a radically new output of titles each month.