Sentences with phrase «royalty deal with her publisher»

I've mentioned that book here so often, you can all be forgiven for assuming that Ms. Poppendieck and I are secretly related, or that I have some lucrative royalty deal with her publisher, but in truth, it's just an awesome book for anyone trying to wade through the byzantine mess that is our current national school lunch program and interested in ideas for fixing it.

Not exact matches

Since you, the fiction writer, are not dealing with the publisher directly as you can do these days, your royalty statement and any money with it FIRST goes to an agent in the country of the publisher.

In that discussion, I was surprised to learn that one of the biggest issues book publishers deal with every day is royalty inquiries from authors.

Generally speaking (there is a small variance of course) the deal with a traditional publisher is your royalty is 6.5 — 8.5 % of the wholesale price.

Numerous other reviews describe hassles in dealing with the publisher, receiving zero in royalties, and battles over copyright.

It will be interesting to see if Ingram starts cutting similar deals with other hot - selling indies, offering them terms and royalty arrangements that publishers can't touch.

You're still responsible for most of your marketing, have to deal with your agent / editor about stuff, have edits, copy - edits, galleys, have to write blog posts for publisher - set - up tours (not always to the most highly trafficked blogs), deal with tracking down missing royalty statements, etc..

A few publishers offer unsuspecting authors a «traditional publishing deal» — where the publisher pays publishing costs and industry - standard royalties on sales — paired with a «mandatory marketing and author training contract» that requires the author to pay the publisher (or an affiliated marketing agency) thousands of dollars for marketing and «author training» services.

In the past, if you were a solid writer with an interesting idea, you had a shot at getting a deal that would pay an advance against royalties with a publisher that assumed all publishing costs.

For the advance - and - royalty deal, authors will receive a traditional publishing contract, with the publisher covering 100 % of costs.

They will also assist you in negotiating the terms of your contract with the publisher, and since they earn more if you do, they will ensure you get better deals like a higher book advance or a bigger slice of the royalty your book will generate.

While I've certainly held dreams of being traditionally published for many years, as an author, I wouldn't be thrilled if I were signed to a long - term deal with a publisher who was trying to kill e-books and giving me lower and lower e-book royalties, while indie authors are about to get 70 %.

I don't have to worry about whether my publisher will follow through on commitments, keep the work in print, contract with shell companies in order to reduce my royalties to pennies, or sell the right to publish my work to another company as part of a bankruptcy deal.

Their main jobs are: — Connecting the author with publishers, including the top publishing companies — Negotiating contracts and other deals — Ensuring the payment or the royalties, contracts, and such thing alike — Becoming a mediator in case there are issues between the publishers and the authors — Helping the publishing process, including publication, review, and distribution

Under the best of circumstances, by exhibiting in Bologna, your top titles might generate rights interest with publishers from several countries (typically, a foreign rights deal includes a non-refundable advance and a royalty rate of 7 — 8 %).

That's $ 5.60 more in royalties than the same book would fetch from an Audible membership sale (assuming the publisher is dealing directly with ACX, rather than through an aggregator).

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.

As part of the deal, the publisher will fund development of the game with an investment of $ 7.75 million, plus 45 % royalties on net sales and marketing services.