Btw, if paying as much as possible to support the publisher is a virtuous thing, then buying ebooks is bad. Bad, boy, bad...
Even a heavily discounted hardcover ($17) with a 15% royalty will deliver $2.55 to the author and their agent.
But even the agency ebooks at $13 will only deliver $2.28.
Those extra $0.25 will really make a difference.
Of course, the truly virtuous will pay full list, right?
That's $30 and return a whole $4.50. That's twice what the ebook lover pays.
So we must conclude that even the most parsimonious pbook buyer is more virtuous than the most spendthrift ebook buyer, to say nothing of Bookbub subscribers.
Time to go ditch those kindles and Kobos ye sinners!
Repent and ye shall be healed.
(Of course all that requires the book to earn out the advance so publishers actually start paying royalties at all.)
Ps. That WAG actually uses the highest royalty.
Reality is closer to 8-12%:
https://www.alanjacobson.com/writers...of-publishing/
Quote:
Hardback edition: 10% of the retail price on the first 5,000 copies; 12.5% for the next 5,000 copies sold, then 15% for all further copies sold.
Paperback: 8% of retail price on the first 150,000 copies sold, then 10% thereafter.
Exceptions to the above include sales to warehouse clubs (like Costco or Sam’s Club), book clubs, and special orders; the royalty percentages for these can be half the figures listed above.
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