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.
Add to that the problems caused by charging ridiculously high ebook prices and getting paid less money for those high - priced ebooks than if the books were properly priced, and the traditionally published writers, who receive 25 % of
net ebook royalties, are really losing money here.
Not exact matches
The author has to do all this themselves at their own expense, and in return Amazon will shaft them with a 35 %
royalty rate (the 50 % you quote is
NET, which is rich given the only place it will be sold is on Amazon, so Amazon will take their 30 % cut and then take another half of what's left) for an
ebook.
As XinXii is an European based company, we have to warrant two aspects: - we have to pay the German VAT to the tax office for each
eBook sold (19 %)- the VAT must be always included in the final price of all products listed on XinXii So after a sale, we have to transfer the VAT to the tax office, and the author will get his percentage of the
net price as provision /
royalty.
XinXii
royalties are «
net royalties»: The «
net sales» is equal to the
eBook's
net sales price.
The company's website states they publish in both paperback and
ebook formats, with
royalties equaling 75 % of the
net revenue from the book.
If Publisher does not:
eBook price: $ 10.00 $ 7.00 received by publisher (after 30 % sales commission to retailer) 25 % of
net royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronic
royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronic
Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronic books.
It also lends credence to rumors that some top - name authors are already receiving
ebook royalties higher than 25 % of
net.
While no publisher can give authors the
royalty percentage they get from KDP and other online platforms (our overhead makes that impossible) we can definitely compromise at a fair level; Bell Bridge pays 40 percent
net on
ebook royalties.
Luckily, you still get 70 %
royalties on
ebooks between 2.99 $ and 9.99 $, even if the 2.99 $ includes VAT — it will just be less
net payment for you.
(Note that my book is no longer for sale because it's coming out in a revised / updated edition from Writer's Digest Books this fall, and I have little doubt my
net royalty on each
ebook copy of that edition will be less than what I used to get on the self - published edition — but I'm OK with that).
In addition to the ability to distribute
ebooks to all of the retail platforms while giving the authors 100 % of the
net royalties of the books, minus the built - in percentages that the retailers earn, HostBaby offers authors their own uniquely branded web space for the fans to find information, sample chapters, cover art, and more.
In the case of Hydra, a science fiction
ebook - only imprint owned by Random House, the theory is that authors will not receive
royalties, but will instead receive payment on what is closer to a profit - sharing system of the
net profits.
If a Big 5 publisher sells an
ebook for $ 4.99, that
ebook is discounted to Amazon by 50 %, so the publisher gets $ 2.50 (the
net proceeds), and the author's
royalty has to come from that.
Authors will receive a guaranteed $ 1,500 advance and 50 %
royalties on
net eBook revenue.
US publisher Simon and Schuster has announced that its
ebook royalties will shift to a payment based on percentage of
net receipts rather than a share of the list price.
Compare this to a
net royalty of just $ 1.39 for an
ebook priced at $ 1.99.
I am apparently motivated by jealousy, because I wish that my
ebooks were priced at $ 7.99 with me getting 25 % of
net digital
royalties.
Publishers will be forced to cede more revenue to authors, the idea that 25 %
Net is a defensible long - term
ebook royalty rate is a farce best forgotten about quickly.
So they can have their star authors sign the boilerplate contract, permitting the publisher to say — almost truthfully — that they don't pay more than 15 % of cover price
royalty on print or more than 25 % of
net royalty on
ebooks (among other things).
Archway will pay an
ebook royalty of 50 percent of
net sales, so if an
ebook is distributed to Kindle, for example, an Archway author would receive 50 percent of the sale minus Amazon's 30 percent fee.
As Steven Pressfield says in his analysis, «Simon and Schuster didn't raise the
eBook royalty for Hugh Howey from 25 % to 30 % of
net receipts to lure him to do a deal with them.
The truth then is that very few authors receive a proportion of a publisher's
net revenue from home sales which is anywhere close to the rusty standard of a 25 - percent
net receipts
ebook royalty.»
This is extraordinarily close to the 25 percent of
net receipts that is now the gold standard for
ebook royalties.»
Under the advance plus
royalty model, authors are offered a more traditional publishing arrangement, with Random House's standard
eBook royalty of 25 percent of
net receipts.
Not only are they fighting for lower prices, which sell more books, capture more of an audience, and make more income... but Amazon just came out in favor of
ebook royalties of 50 % of
net.
Barry:... a 25 %
royalty on the
net revenue produced by an
ebook equals 17.5 % of the retail price after Amazon takes its 30 % cut, and 14.9 % after the agents takes 15 % of the 17.5 %.
Rasenberger on
eBook royalties — half of
net proceeds should be paid, Authors Guild.
With a 70 %
royalty, an
Ebook with a cover price of $ 4.99
nets me about the same as a paperback does with a cover price of $ 14.99, but the opportunity to sell more books at the lower price makes
ebooks the way to go.
Traditional publishers typically offer somewhere between 5 - 15 percent gross
royalty to authors and 25 %
net royalty on
ebooks.
Publishers, on the other hand, will feel increased pressure to address paltry
ebook royalties — something that has become a major grievance for authors who are increasingly reluctant to give up their rights in exchange for only 25 % of the
net.
Type & Tell, which is owned by Scandinavian publisher Bonnier, set up shop in the UK in March this year offering 100 %
royalties to authors (
net of retailers» commission) who distributed their
ebooks through the service.