Sentences with phrase «than my ebook royalties»

The royalties I'm getting on my paperback sales are much smaller than my ebook royalties, too.

Not exact matches

I'd love to have an agent if they were able to address the changes in the industry as they occur, rather than turning only to older models of publishing, e.g. arranging eBook contracts in which the eBooks are overpriced and the author receives a small royalty — ugh, who would want that?

What, other than conversion, is the publisher doing for the author regarding the ebook that justifies them taking such a huge chunk of the royalties?

Smashwords also has some perks that make me wish the outfit had made more inroads into the ebook market on its own merits (as a seller and not just a distributor), such as the ability to issue coupons, to offer affiliates a greater percentage of the sales price, and the fact that authors receive a higher royalty rate there than at any of the other stores.

Each time an ebook is borrowed the author gets a payment of about $ 2, which is many cases is more than the royalty they would result had the ebook been purchased.

I find it curious that the ebook royalty rate is 50 % for direct sales, lower than the 70 % rate most self - published authors get for their e-books on Amazon.

Amazon's royalty structures drops back to 35 % if your ebook is priced more than $ 9.99

And if you price your ebook over $ 9.99, you need to know that you're losing money on every sale between $ 10.00 and $ 19.99, because you're making half the royalty — but you're also killing your sales, because (as I mention in # 2 below), ebook prices tend to be fairly elastic — raising the price by a dollar can often lose you more than a dollar in sales.

Writers can set the prices of their ebooks higher than $ 9.99, but who's going to buy those, and then their royalties are cut in half.

I mean seriously, if Joe Konrath can make more selling his ebooks at $ 2.99 than he would get in royalties off a $ 24 HARDBACK, there's something seriously wrong with the money side of things in traditional publishing.

«Indie ebook authors are earning royalty percentages that are 3 - 5 times higher than what traditionally published authors earn.

It also lends credence to rumors that some top - name authors are already receiving ebook royalties higher than 25 % of net.

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.

The ebook must be at least 20 % cheaper than the print book in order to be eligible for a 70 % royalty.

What this means is that even though the author and narrator may split audiobook royalties 50/50, the author gets a better return for advertising than the narrator ever could; because some people who are sold by an audiobook ad will buy the print or ebook instead.

After all, it offers the highest percentage royalty, and eBooks are usually priced lower than print books, which appeals to readers who might not want to drop $ 15 on an author they've never heard of.

Even though the retail prices of ebooks are usually lower than print, the actual dollar value of ebook royalties may, surprisingly, be higher!

Because traditional publishers are often foolish in how they handle ebooks — insisting on seeing them as contenders for paper sales rather than a different market entirely and generally overpricing them, in addition to generally giving the authors a pittance of a royalty on them.

Regarding royalties, it goes like this: Smashwords Wholesale compensation = 60 % of retail (when sold on sites other than their own) Example: if your eBook is selling for $ 7.95, the author would get $ 4.77.

(Note that my book is no longer for sale because it's coming out in a revised / updated edition from Writer's Digest Books this fall, and I have little doubt my net royalty on each ebook copy of that edition will be less than what I used to get on the self - published edition — but I'm OK with that).

While the ebook is available from Untreed's network of more than two hundred ebook retailers in its distribution channels, readers who purchase the book from the Untreed Reads store, thereby providing the maximum amount of royalty for the author and the publisher, as well as bringing consumers to its storefront to discover its catalog of ebooks, will receive additional content for free, this time in the form of Francke's music.

And at only a 15 % royalty rate for ebooks sold through Smashwords, the platform offers the authors a greater percentage of their sales price in royalty than platforms like Amazon or Barnes & Noble, who take 30 %.

The royalty program for the Direct to Author program is fairly solid, giving more than most other websites distributing ebooks.

What actually may make this venture far more profitable than enhanced ebooks from a few years ago is the building on the HTML5 platform for ease of consumption across multiple platforms, as well as Pubsoft's original offering to the digital publishing industry of creating streamlined, one - stop - shopping for authors and publishers to market, sell, and retrieve royalties on their titles, regardless of retail outlet.

Add to that the problems caused by charging ridiculously high ebook prices and getting paid less money for those high - priced ebooks than if the books were properly priced, and the traditionally published writers, who receive 25 % of net ebook royalties, are really losing money here.

A new report claims that self - published authors have surged to 31 % of ebook sales on Amazon.com, and are now earning more ebook royalties than writers published by the «Big five» traditional publishers.

While self - pubbed authors generally price their ebooks lower than $ 9.99 (the royalties they receive by Amazon are cut in half otherwise), indies have responded to the new ruling with an average 5 % price increase.

I've sold audio rights to it for 2.5 times what the audio rights for Riyria sold for, I've sold one foreign deal for it, and I'll make 100 % of the ebook royalty and more than twice as much of the audio royalty.

Different publishers have different rates, you will get a different physical royalty structure than you would with eBooks.

While this still results in a royalty, that amount is far, far lower on a print edition than on an ebook.

With its outrageous download fees for ebooks (megabyte for megabyte, over five times more expensive than Verizon cell phone data charges) and the low royalty it pays on books outside a narrow price range ($ 2.99 - 9.99), Amazon is probably earning double the profits on ebooks as competitors such as Apple or various national ebook retailers.

Data shows that authors who sell their ebooks at a $ 2.99 price point can actually end up earning more in royalties than authors whose books are priced at $ 6.99 or higher because they move more product.

With a 70 % royalty and no printing or shipping costs, you are likely to make a higher profit selling your ebooks at a lower price than the print version.

US publisher Simon and Schuster has announced that its ebook royalties will shift to a payment based on percentage of net receipts rather than a share of the list price.

It demonstrates that at present royalty rates, publishers benefit from higher margins on ebooks while authors receive less income than on the sale of a printed book.

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.

To get more in royalties than an ebook pays at $ 9.99, its price has to be raised to above $ 27.

Managing director Javier Martín explained that Balcells has a large enough list of authors that they have the ability to negotiate independently with any partner they choose, and believes the royalties for ebooks should be higher than the agreed rate, closer to 40 %.

Many indie authors eschew pbooks over ebooks because of costs and royalties and other things (I can release an ebook more efficiently than a pbook), but even Amazon does paper (Create Space).

At a certain level of success as an author, it makes a lot of sense to go for the much broader print market in large volume than the smaller ebook market with higher average royalties.

Sales of Konrath's $ 2.99 ebook will deliver him about $ 2.10 a copy (Konrath says $ 2.04; not sure where the other six cents is going...), as much or more as he would make on a $ 14.95 paperback from a trade publisher, and significantly more than he'd make on a $ 9.99 ebook distributed under «Agency» terms and current major publisher royalty conventions.

It's almost certain that ebooks, because they're often self published, and even when traditionally published have higher royalty rates than print, make up a substantially higher fraction of author earnings than they do of consumer spending.

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Since advances from publishers for other - than - the - biggest titles are also declining, those next - tier authors will find self - publishing or publishing with smaller houses that pay lower advances but higher ebook royalties an increasingly tempting alternative.

So they can have their star authors sign the boilerplate contract, permitting the publisher to say — almost truthfully — that they don't pay more than 15 % of cover price royalty on print or more than 25 % of net royalty on ebooks (among other things).

Written about by several of us, including Michael Cader, Brian DeFiore, Nick Harkaway, the Authors Guild and me, this is the slide that indicates a higher profitability in some circumstances for ebooks than print, partly in reflection of lower royalty rates for authors.

Earn better royalties when you publish an eBook, better than paper back books, or hardcover books.

Firstly, although you mention the lower eBook pricing, you failed to discuss the higher royalty rates which more than make up for the price reduction (on the author's side).

«Authors have come to realize that as self - publishing ebook author, they can enjoy faster time to market, four to five times greater per - unit royalties, greater creative control, and greater price competitiveness than traditionally published authors,» asserts Coker.

More than a few people are asking how long ebook subscription models can pay a full royalty — since greater success in engaging users / subscribers means costs can outpace revenue.