I also tried to provide the broadest of benchmarks to help you have some context if you do already have an offer in hand and you now want to negotiate for
standard book royalties or an advance.
Proceeds will go to the rights - holders, and if the authors» works consists of over 10,000 words, the authors get
the standard book royalty rate of 35 % of total sales.
Not exact matches
Publisher / line Year (or projected year) of release Which
book it is of yours / for that publisher (1st, 5th, etc.) Advance per
book (if any)
Standard royalty percentage (for regular print sales AND for ebook sales) Total earnout to date (INCLUDING advance) Title acronym with month / year of release (if known)
Books from authors and publishers who choose the 70 percent royalty option will have access to all the same features and be subject to all the same requirements as books receiving the standard royalty
Books from authors and publishers who choose the 70 percent
royalty option will have access to all the same features and be subject to all the same requirements as
books receiving the standard royalty
books receiving the
standard royalty rate.
So the
standard royalty on ebooks sold through the site would increase to 35 percent and the
standard royalty on hardcover
books would increase to 25 percent.
If you look at the
standard hardcover
book, it normally retails for around $ 27.99 and gives a $ 5.67 profit to the publisher and $ 4.20
royalty to author.
Particularly, it must do away with the exclusivity requirement but it must also pay out in percentages, based on a
book's
standard royalty rate.
In general practice, hardcover
books pay
standard royalty rates of 10 %, 12 %, and 15 % of the cover price — 10 % on the first 250,000 copies sold, 12 % on the next 250,001 to 500,000 copies sold, and 15 % on anything sold above 500,000 copies.
At the present time, traditionally published authors still only receive the
standard 15 %
royalty, identical to what they would earn on hardcover sales; the chairman explained the historical rationale for the 15 % paid out to authors, which was based on the assumption that the cost of producing the physical
book was about 70 % of the sales price and the remaining 30 % was to be split equally between the author and the publisher.
Royalties are dependant on the company who is selling the
book, there really isn't an industry
standard.
But today's
standard contracts give authors just 25 % of the publisher's «net receipts» (more or less what the publisher collects from a
book sale) for e-
book royalties.
The do not pay advances against
royalties, but if the
book sells over 15,000 copies there is a great chance that they will decide to publish your
book in major bookstores and you will receive
standard print
royalties.
Not only are these new mid-listers selling a lot of
books, but they are also receiving significantly more money from each sale (the industry
standard is a 25 %
royalty of net sales for e-
books under contract by a big - six publisher).
It is
standard for traditional
book publishers to take a percentage of
book sales, this is called a
royalty and also how publishers make their money back on the
book deal they give authors.
As opposed to big publishers, which are thought to pay authors a
standard ebook
royalty of 25 %, new independent ebook publishers like The Atavist, Open Road Media and OR
Books, can and do pay authors substantially more.
In this contract, an unsuspecting author is offered a «traditional publishing deal» — meaning the publisher pays the publishing costs and offers industry -
standard royalties on sales — but the contract contains a «mandatory marketing agreement» (or addendum) that requires the author to pay the publisher (or an affiliated marketing company) thousands of dollars to market and advertise the author's
book.
Amazon calculates your
royalties after
books enrolled in KU and the Lending Library according to KENCP v3.0: this is an algorithm that calculates how many «
standard» pages your
book contains.
In negotiations with the Association of Spanish Literary Agencies (ADAL), the publishers have agreed to price ebooks at 80 % of a printed
books cover price, with a
standard 25 %
royalty rate.
In addition to the specific terms the author and publisher have agreed upon for things like the type of
book, the advance against
royalty amount and the delivery date, the
standard book contract encompasses a lengthy number of clauses covering important points in a
book's life cycle and an author's livelihood.
For each Kindle
book sold, authors and publishers who choose the new
royalty option ¿ will will not replace the existing DTP
standard royalty option ¿ will receive 70 percent of list price, net of delivery costs.
Currently my
books standard sales generate $ 3.99 per
book which means a 70 %
Royalty or $ 2.78 per
book.
Have ebook
royalty rates become
standard in
book contracts?
Using the same
royalty standard as Oyster, Smashwords authors will earn the same 60 % rate of their
book price if the subscriber reads past 30 % of the entire
book.
If your
book is already available at
standard terms, your
royalties will come to you in the same way as before.
Oyster had a particularly perilous payment model in that it paid a
standard royalty for each
book borrowed of around 60 % of list price once 20 % of a
book was read.