Sentences with phrase «pay an ebook royalty»

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.

Not exact matches

Barnes & Noble will pay or cause to be paid your Royalties on sales of your eBook approximately sixty (60) days following the end of the calendar month during which it is sold.

For ebooks priced outside a narrow $ 7 window ($ 2.99 - 9.99) Amazon only pays 35 % royalties to Apple's 70 %.

There was a great Salon piece that faulted publishers refusing to pay authors a decent ebook royalty as the cause of this problem.

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.

Here is a comparison chart of royalties paid to self - published authors by the major ebook stores.

The ebook royalties shown in the chart below are the percentage paid to the publisher — so if you are self - publishing that means you.

I'll grant you that HB authors will see their advances split into groupings that recognize there will be MORE money down the line when trade or mm comes out, but that doesn't equate — to me — with the scenario you've come up for ebook royalty payments being considered an «advance» when paid after publication.

I look upon my time as a bestselling independent writer, whose work is published exclusively as eBooks, as serving my apprenticeship in literature while at the same time being paid as a professional through the act of receiving regular monthly royalty payments.

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.

Authors and publishers have experimented with different ways to avoid paying the royalty commission to book retailers, opting instead to lure readers to their own websites to make their ebook purchases.

Essentially, BookBaby, has found that charging legitimate authors an upfront fee to process and distribute their ebooks may cause some to ultimately opt for one of the sites that makes its profit out of royalties rather than pay an initial investment; however, this same business model means that spam and piracy can be kept to a minimum as get - rich - quick scammers are loathe to shell out the upfront cost.

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.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

However, on platforms such as Amazon's KDP, there may be differing royalty percentages paid depending on factors such as the ebook buyer's location.

Typically, the royalty rates paid to authors are established by the self publishing platform used, are non-negotiable and depend on costs to produce and distribute the book or ebook.

So royalties accrue and are paid to authors from the sale of the first book or ebook, according to agreed to payout thresholds and periods.

And the royalties paid on ebooks are very nice indeed.

Yep, the Traditional Publishers are messing over their writers by paying crappy royalties on ebooks.

In exchange for incentives such as paid royalties when Kindle owners borrowed the books, authors were not allowed to list their ebooks for sale anywhere else, including their own websites, and were not able to use platforms like Wattpad where users could interact with the book.

We're talking about publishers who pay 40 - 50 % royalties on ebooks while offering quality editing, cover art, and provide marketing support.

A trade publisher who pays poor royalties (as most trade publishers still do on ebooks) can still be a good choice for an indie, if the scale and publishing and marketing plan is good.

eXtasy is an eBook publisher that pays 40 % royalties to all of their authors.

So... if the publisher sells the ebook through Amazon at $ 14.99, and Amazon pays the publisher a royalty of 35 %, then the publisher will receive $ 5.25.

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.

Moving ebooks to subsidiary rights is very appealing on many levels, as it would allow individual vendors to create their own specific version of the ebook, price it as they feel appropriate, and pay an advance and royalty to the publisher for that right.

Now let's see if they begin to pay royalties on US sales at the end of the month for ebooks sold during the previous month — this would really set them far apart from the rest of the pack and make many ebook authors very happy.

With its outrageous download fees for ebooks (megabyte for megabyte, over five times more expensive than Verizon cell phone data charges) and the low royalty it pays on books outside a narrow price range ($ 2.99 - 9.99), Amazon is probably earning double the profits on ebooks as competitors such as Apple or various national ebook retailers.

Now, all my print - only books are ebooks on pirate sites, even though Amazon told me that it never sold any of the illegally created «ebook» versions of my work (except to me) if Amazon lied to me, and if Amazon allows people who illegally bought illegal copies of my works which were created in violation of my copyrights (and for which I was never paid any royalties) do you think those re-sales will be legal?

Unfortunately many of the evolving digital book publishing services, and later ebook publishers / vendors, continued to pay royalties quarterly or semi-annually.

And it's recent reductions in the royalties paid audiobook creators hints that it'd like to do the same for ebook creators.

Also similar to the Kindle Store, these sites may pay authors a royalty for each ebook sale and usually charge authors a fee for order processing.

3) Royalties of 6 - 12 %, instead of the 70 % that Amazon pays for Kindle ebooks, was appalling.

Even if you do a Countdown Deal where you do make actual sales, the total royalties will be reduced since the price paid per eBook is reduced.

Here's the kicker, though: they pay the same royalty to the author (assuming they report ebook sales honestly, which is a whole «nother kettle of fish.)

They offer up to 35 % of the cover price for digital - first releases, start print royalties at 7.5 % of the cover price; and pay 20 % royalties on ebooks when digital and bookstore distributed print books are released simultaneously.

You'll find disturbingly few in the $ 20 price range though, because Amazon's royalty scheme means that they need to price a book in the $ 50 price range ($ 17.50 in Amazon royalties) to earn what Apple would pays them for an ebook selling for $ 25 (also $ 17.50 in royalties).

Outside that range, Amazon only pays 35 % royalties, which is about what some traditional publishers pay authors for ebooks.

To get more in royalties than an ebook pays at $ 9.99, its price has to be raised to above $ 27.

Amazon is now paying a 35 % royalty rate, so my question to my published brethren is, why would you ever sell your ebook rights to a publisher to get 15 % when you can simply post your book to Amazon and earn 35 %?

As opposed to big publishers, which are thought to pay authors a standard ebook royalty of 25 %, new independent ebook publishers like The Atavist, Open Road Media and OR Books, can and do pay authors substantially more.

At least until major houses get rid of non-compete clauses, pay higher royalties for ebook sales, and limit their contracts to a set number of years.

In return KDP Select pays higher royalties for sales in certain countries, adds your ebook to the lending library for Prime Members, and gives you promotional options to make your ebook free for up to five days or discounted for up to seven.

Similarly, licenses may be exclusive or non-exclusive, world - wide or geographically - restricted, short - term or perpetual, royalty - free or royalty - paying, limited to a particular language or format, such as audio, print, or eBooks.

For eBooks priced from $ 0.99 to $ 2.98, and eBooks priced at $ 10.00 or more, Amazon pays 35 % in royalties on all products sold.

Since advances from publishers for other - than - the - biggest titles are also declining, those next - tier authors will find self - publishing or publishing with smaller houses that pay lower advances but higher ebook royalties an increasingly tempting alternative.

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).

They would do this by receiving their royalty on a higher average price that readers might pay for a more useful ebook — because royalties ultimately are based on what a book will sell for — and from the extra sales made to readers who want this specific feature.

Amazon only pays 35 % for ebook outside a restrictive $ 2.99 - 9.99 window and charges grossly inflated «download fees» that lower the real royalty rate to 60 - 65 % inside that range.

JRussell Productions is not a vanity or subsidy press; they pay 50 percent royalties on the ebooks they sell.