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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Even publishers that do not factor in production costs have abandoned percentage payments based on gross receipts.
“Years ago, it was more common for royalties to be based on the retail price of a book,” says Rod Colvin, publisher of Omaha, Neb.-based Addicus Books. “If the book sold for $19.95, the author would get 6 [percent] to 10 percent. But many publishers have switched to a percentage of net.”
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