You can negotiate
the size of the advance, the interest rate, the length of time clients have to pay, their reliability, and any ancillary fees the institution might charge such as minimum payment amounts, invoice processing fees, mailing and lockbox fees, credit reviews, overdue fees, and so on.
They are influenced by a variety of factors, including relationships with authors or literary agents,
size of advances, potential sales, future of a series (if there is one), competitive titles, size of potential readership, and how promotable a book or particular author is.
It depends on
the size of the advance on the book, the imprint, the publisher, and so many other factors.
How everything breaks down depends on
the size of the advance, too.
Changes in technology, Amazon algorithms,
the size of advances... these are beyond the power of our will.
Although she refuses to reveal
the size of the advance she says its enough to put her through university and help out her parents financially (her father teaches children with special needs and her mother works on the London Underground (the subway system).
And
the size of the advance is also a consideration that Howey's analysis doesn't touch on.
Which system is right for you will depend on many other factors, as well, including
the size of the advance (if you receive a legacy offer), how important digital is to you vs paper, how much you value control over business decisions vs how comfortable you are delegating, how much you value time to market, etc..
I write slowly enough, and have enough of a buffer, that
the size of advance is irrelevant to me.
Although she refuses to reveal
the size of the advance she says its enough to put her through university and help out her parents...
The support you can expect is proportionate with
the size of your advance.
Having worked with publishers large and small, I'm of the same mind that it is not the size of the publisher that matters with marketing but
the size of the advance; i.e. the amount that the publisher is willing to invest in the author.
I'd also gladly sign up with Amazon, but given
the sizes of their advances, that won't happen, so no point in discussing it.
Even if you know how many books you've sold, it's difficult to know whether you are «successful,» a term that is relative and driven by
the size of your advance.
If not, I go back to
the size of the advance the agent is after.