Our member publishers encourage you to submit
your title via an agent.
Not exact matches
In light of this new agency commission model where Amazon and Apple will no longer carry the product per se but have an agreement to sell
titles via their site in exchange for a 30 % commission on the sale (see earlier post to get up to speed), suddenly
agents need to re-examine the whole definition of net receipts in publishing contracts.
Indie authors are publishing direct to their readers
via distributors such as Smashwords, and
via all the major retailers, and many are not bothering to shop their
titles to
agents and publishers.
Currently, this would be performed
via a signed contract in multiple counterparts, a wire of funds from one bank to the bank of an escrow
agent, the manual transfer of
title, and finally the release of funds to another bank, with the whole process taking hours or days.