Book Royalties: How Publishers Pay Authors?

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Book Royalties How Publishers Pay Authors?
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Understanding Book Royalties

• Book publishing and/or marketing terminologies
  such as book royalties sound foreign to some
  authors, if not all. Thus, receiving a hundred
  percent of book royalties is music to the ears,
  until an author knows what book royalties mean.
  By definition, book royalties are a percentage of
  sales of a particular book. Needless to say, the
  hundred percent that book publishers refer to is
  the hundred percent an agreed percentage.
  First-time authors confuse book sales with book
  royalties.
• This event is not entirely the fault of the
  authors. Out of desperation to close a sale,
  cunning sales agents omit parts of the whole
  truth. To fully convince authors, they only tell
  them what authors want to hear. Hence, they, the
  authors, remain oblivious to the whole truth of
  royalties. Malpractices in the book publishing
  industries involve fancy talks, fashioned with
  ill-intent, to charm authors.

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How Self-Published Authors Obtain Their Share

• When a book is purchased, authors assume
  immediately they obtain a hundred percent of the
  sale. Unfortunately, that is not how it works.
  There are things that authors need to consider
  share of the literary agent, share of the
  self-publishing industry, shipping fee, cost of
  print, and etc.

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• As a matter of fact, authors only get 8 of the
  retail price for the first 150, 000 copies sold
  for paperbacks. Then, two percent will be added
  once the number of sold copies exceed 150, 000.
  As for paperbacks, authors get 10 of the retail
  price for the first 5,000 copies. Thereafter, the
  royalty increases to 12.5 for the next 5,000
  copies sold. If the number of books sold exceeds
  10,000, the royalty increases to 15. These rates
  depend on the agreed terms between the author and
  the self-publishing firms, though these rates are
  typical.
• These rates sound nothing like the 100
  royalties most publishers promised you, right?
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