Author Royalties in the Hot Seat
With new questions and options emerging around e-rights and royalty payments, do publishers risk losing control?
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Smaller, direct e-book publishers, especially in the romance area, are paying as much as 37.5 percent to 40 percent, Ellenberg says, while traditional publishers are "all over the place"—from 25 percent (Random House) to the same as paperback royalties (Harlequin).
The trend among traditional publishers has been to pay authors "a bit more" for e-books, he says, though it is universally true that electronic rights have been part of the equation for more than a dec- ade. The biggest shake-ups in new purchases of books have come when a title has already seen considerable success as an independently published book, and e-rights are bought by publishers as a secondary buy.
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- Ethan Ellenberg
- Stephen Covey
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