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For any authors reading - how do royalty rates compare for paper books, international paper editions, ebooks and subscriptions on things like safari? Maybe peop
by dman 16y ago
For any authors reading - how do royalty rates compare for paper books, international paper editions, ebooks and subscriptions on things like safari? Maybe people are buying books through mediums that make lesser money for the author? Also maybe people are buying more used books ? (I regret to say that I mostly buy used books)
- petercooper 16y agoI've written about it at http://beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/ http://beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/ in the past. But the Cliff Notes version is that with Apress I'm meant to get anywhere between 10% and 20% for paper copies (sliding scale depending on # of copies sold) and double the print rate for e-books (so between 20% and 40%). With Pragmatic Programmers I believe the rate is 50%.
- bphogan 16y agoYes. With PragProg it's 50%, but it's 50% profit sharing really. There's no advance up-front, but you split the profits with the publisher. It's pretty awesome because in a way, it's a lot like self-publishing, but you get all the support that comes from a publisher, including copy editors, indexers, and development editors. So you can win on that deal or lose. If you sell 400 copies, you'd have been better off taking a $10,000 advance. If you sell 4000 copies, you're gonna be much happier with this situation.