Not only do you rack up more units sold in a shorter period, but those sales can get your book on the old
royalty escalator for a higher royalty rate if you signed your contract before 12 March 2014.
A royalties escalator increases the author's royalty rate in steps, based on units sold.
Unpaid royalties of approximately $ 4,200 because the publisher's accounting department missed the fact the author's contract contained
a royalties escalator.
Not exact matches
Adding that she doesn't feel a flat
royalty rate would ultimately work to get authors a better payout, Weltz said she would like to see
escalators more regularly built into the e-book
royalty rate and has already had success achieving this in the international market.
And she noted that more American publishers do now seem open to the idea of adding
escalators into e-book
royalty rate.
Advanced options for complex
royalty calculations, including
escalators, reserves, bundles, multi-author contracts, and much more.
These few authors have effectively negotiated the receipt of huge lump - sum payments for their books, instead of whatever nominal
royalty rates are specified in their contracts (to avoid triggering
escalator clauses).
If
royalty rates are based on quantity
escalators are the
escalators quantities correct?
P&L s also take into account
escalators, which are the sales thresholds at which an an author earns a higher
royalty rate.