Negotiating Author Payments in the Digital Age
Author contracts no longer conform to a standard as alternative forms of publishing create new models of compensation.
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“I don’t offer advances, but I do offer a percentage of royalties, as most publishers do,” she explains. “We sign contracts with an author or [a] family who owns rights to the book. We pay based on a sliding-scale percentage as sales go up.”
Kichler offers six percent of the net proceeds she receives for sales of one to 5,000 copies, eight percent for sales of 5,001 to 10,000, and 10 percent for sales over 10,000. She says her percentages are probably less than the industry average, but that this is necessary because of the risk she takes in reprinting books that may be decades old.
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