https://alanjacobson.com/writers-toolkit/do-the-royalties-of-traditional-publishing-make-cents/ Official website of USA Today bestselling author Alan Jacobson Fri, 13 Apr 2018 20:21:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://alanjacobson.com/writers-toolkit/do-the-royalties-of-traditional-publishing-make-cents/#comment-49 Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:48:58 +0000 http://s417512529.onlinehome.us/?page_id=586#comment-49 […] For self-publishers, if the price is between $2.99 and $9.99 (£1.98 and £6.60) for a book, Amazon’s Kindle pays the publisher back 70% of royalties. If the book is over $9.99 the publisher will only receive 35% royalties (Amazon receives the other 65%). As the piece states, “This is a very clear incentive for authors to keep the price of e-books low… As an author, I feel a little at the mercy of Amazon”. If you’re a traditional paper publisher, selling through Amazon, you can expect them to take a 55% royalty cut. Once all is said and done, a $15 book sale in the US can leave an author with $1.63 (before tax), whereas selling through an actual book shop could leave an author with up to $3.48. And if that all seems a little confusing, with a little bit of digging you find that digital only publishers are having to come up with some pretty creative number games to make the e-books market at all profitable. […]

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