Unfortunately, Colin is right. The going royalty rate tends to be around 10% On all the medical books I have published, the royalty was 10% divided among all authors. One extremely big project got 12% divided among 6 editors, each of us getting 2%.
I think Amazon's Kindle bookstore gives authors 30% but all they do is provide a place to download from. Absolutely nothing else. And, of course, your only option as a Kindle customer is the e-Book version, eliminating sales to people who want a hardcopy. On Dec 1, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Colin Holgate <[email protected]> wrote: > When I signed up with them they had said that the 14% (or thereabouts) that > they give is a favorable rate. I checked into it, and certainly a lot of > places are more like 10%, so I'm willing to believe that their rate is decent. > > As for self publishing, there are a handful of things that I'm not finding > time to do, and getting 14% of a mass distributed item is better than getting > 100% of something that I would never find the time to promote! > > > On Dec 1, 2012, at 1:28 AM, J. Landman Gay <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Good on you! You deserve it. Seems like the ratios are off though, you >>> should have got more. > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
