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by plg 8y ago
18%
- Tarq0n 8y agoSeems like a pretty bad deal? Anyone with experience in this industry care to comment?
- cmurphycode 8y ago18% of net is within range for fiction novels, but I wouldn't be surprised if a work like this was completely different.
- Frost1x 8y agoSeems low but I'm not familiar with the for profit publication industry. Wickham is one of the leads in providing data visualization/graphics for R. He authored ggplot2, one of the better plotting libraries available in R. With data analysis/science trends of use in Python (especially with IPython/Jupyter/JupyterHub and an R kernel available) ggplot2 has some real competition now (poltly, matplotlib, etc.). There's still heavy entrenchment in R due to the amount of useful libraries in CRAN and previous work but I predict much new work is and will continue migrating to Python as newer professionals enter the domain.
- dragandj 8y ago18% is way more than usual. Royalties for printed tech books are usually 10-15%. Which is bad anyway.
- mjn 8y agoWe got 6% from Springer for a textbook (6% total split between the authors, not per-author) [1]. However we were first-time authors, and also insisted that we be allowed to leave the "author version" PDFs online as open access [2]. So it's possible the lack of a fully exclusive contract made our royalties lower. [1] https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319427140 https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319427140 [2] http://pcgbook.com/ http://pcgbook.com/