The Low Low Royalty Rates Offered By Mainstream Publishing

Well worth read­ing if you are or plan to become a pub­lished author. It illus­trates why I don’t see any way that the cur­rent pub­lish­ing model can be sustained.

Doing some rough sums, I think this author could have earned the same amount from sell­ing 10,000 copies on Ama­zon at $2.99 as she did sell­ing 100,000 via Har­le­quin at $4.50

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A Newbie’s Guide to Pub­lish­ing: Har­le­quin Fail
I pub­lished my first novel with Harlequin’s Intrigue line in August of 2000. My twenty-fifth was released in Novem­ber, 2011. I had a lot of fun writ­ing those books – taut, page-turning, action-pack…

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