Not exact matches
Either increased shipping capacity
out of the Midwest or alternative markets for Canadian production would increase oil production
profits for producers and the
royalty and tax inflow for federal and provincial governments.
Then the Canadian company could pay
out royalties to use that patent to the Irish subsidiary, and set the
royalties to equal the size
of the company's Canadian
profits.
That they were able to include
royalty in that mix, reminding everyone
of the success Disney's had with The Princess Diaries and a whole slew
of crown - sporting animated heroines, only ups the
profit potential and resulting need to get this movie
out to its young public as soon as possible.
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.
As GoodEReader reported last week, several groups have lashed
out at the lack
of an advance and the complete reversal on the typical
royalty model; rather, authors were being given what the publisher called a «
profit sharing» model that the organizations and many agents and authors felt was shoving too much financial risk on the authors who signed these deals.
Authors and agents will immediately note that much
of the additional
profit exists because the
royalty allocation once earned
out is $ 1.58 lower on the ebook than for the hardcover.
So I'd be very surprised if it doesn't earn
out at a 2 dollar
royalty rate, and no matter what, TOR (who again I'm sure is taking at LEAST 50 percent
of the cover for themselves), will easily earn a good
profit.
If a book sells, the vanity house charges the author for the printing and then pays a «
royalty»
out of the
profit margin.
What most people don't realize about the Amazon - Hachette dispute is that there are two issues involved: (1) Traditional publishing has problems with the way publishers treat authors (those
profit margins come
out of advances and
royalties), and (2) Amazon's cutthroat business practices.
The article is quite clear about who vanity publishers are — companies that represent themselves as your publisher and then take a publisher's
royalty out of sales
profits even though they take no risk.
Rates used to be lower before the iBookstore and B&N began competing for self - published clients, so the argument goes that once Amazon forces
out their competitors, they're gonna halve the
royalty rate and rake in all those juicy
profits (the Wall Street crowd is laughing right about now at the concept
of Amazon raking in
profits).