Book Publishers Pay Authors By
Independent publishers pay the highest rates.
Book publishers pay authors by. The publisher may charge the author 10 for each copy for their book that retails at 15 00. Amazon publishing is paying 30 on ebooks. As reasonable as this sounds it is not fair.
Publishers pay authors advances that range from as little as 1 000 to amounts in the high six figures for fiction and non fiction. The author can then make a 5 00 profit when they sell the book. Complicating matters a bit there are also several different types of royalty payments that an author might see in an offer or a book contract.
But a drop in overall book sales and the impact of lower priced e books has reduced the amounts of advances publishers pay out. If the author self publishes on a print on demand platform they can pay 5 00 for their printed book and make the 10 00 profit. For a popular writer with a loyal audience multi book contracts are a way for publishers to lock up the rights to book sales as well as the rights for movies television series e books and foreign editions.
Some of the start up publishers are paying authors 50 of net on ebooks and anywhere between 10 and 50 of net on printed books. For new writers unknown in the literary marketplace a small advance of less than 5 000 is common. Some of the smaller print houses are paying a very small royalty on print books.
While madison avenue houses are still paying 25 30 for ebooks indie publishers are typically offering 35 and 50 is not unheard of.