Making the author pay editing costs out of their royalties and setting up the royalties as percentage of actual receipts rather than per copy sold makes them lo

Making the author pay editing costs out of their royalties and setting up the royalties as percentage of actual receipts rather than per copy sold makes them look more like a vanity press than professional. It may be worthwhile, but they need to provide more detail, a short article like this makes them look worse, not better.