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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With the savings in printing, storage and shipping made possible by POD, online sales and e-book devices such as the Amazon Kindle, “the argument from the author’s point of view is ‘we should get more money because your costs are going down and your risks are going down,’” Kirsch says.
One contract negotiated recently by Kirsch involved a publisher deducting from the net proceeds the cost of a POD vendor to create a book, and then paying an author 25 percent of the amount that was left over, an unusually high royalty.
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