At Page Two we feel strongly that if you're funding your book, a hybrid publisher should give you full royalties, or at least much better royalty
rates than a traditional publisher would pay (i.e. better than 10 - 15 % of the retail price).
Not exact matches
That royalty
rate is definitely better
than most
traditional publishers offer.
Amazon royalty
rates are better
than the
traditional publishers, at least when it comes to e-books.
These
publishers are meeting the demand romance fans have for new and more readily available content, while also meeting the needs of romance authors who wish to connect with their fans at a much faster
rate than they could under
traditional print publishing models.
Royalty
rates given to Amazon Publishing authors differ, but they tend to be far closer to the 70 % royalty given to those who self - publish on Amazon
than those offered by
traditional publishers.
None of the major
publishers that I know of sell Amazon as a «deep discount» account where authors would get a much lower royalty
rate than a
traditional sale.
Oh, btw, I'm making that on books I couldn't get a
traditional publisher to touch and I'm glad since my royalty
rates are more
than double what I'd have gotten from them and the press I'm published through doesn't rely on the hand - wavium of BookScan for reporting sales.
And the compensation
rate for just having folks follow a link from your website or blog seems to compare fairly well to the percentages
Traditional Publishers pay for paper books... https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join/compensation.html Shows a lot higher percentages
than I was expecting you to get.
Furthermore, as Phil Sexton,
Publisher and Content Strategist, Writer's Digest at F+W Media, discussed at his DBW14 presentation, authors believe they will receive a higher royalty
rate with self - publishing
than with
traditional publishing.
If he wasn't making out better on his ebook sales
than he was on his hardcover sales, then he had a shitty contract deal with his
publishers, because Amazon offers much better royalty
rates for ebooks
than you'll get from a
traditional publisher for hardcovers.