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Originally Posted by HarryT
10% of "wholesale" price is a pretty standard royalty rate. I speak from experience.
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It's 10% - 15% for hardbacks, 6% - 10% for paperbacks (mass market less than trade). Ebooks can sometimes be as high as 25%. Also, it's not uncommon for some editions to have a sliding scale based on sales; i.e. 10% for the first 10K hardbacks, 12.5% for the next 10K hardbacks, 15% thereafter. Don't expect to be getting 15% unless you're Stephen King or JK Rowling or Dan Brown, in which case the percentage probably doesn't matter (you'll never exceed your advance).