how my book is doing...

[Marian Petrides, M.D.]

Unfortunately, Colin is right. The going royalty rate tends to be around 10%  On all the medical books I have published, the royalty was 10% divided among all authors. One extremely big project got 12% divided among 6 editors, each of us getting 2%.

I think Amazon's Kindle bookstore gives authors 30% but all they do is provide a place to download from. Absolutely nothing else. And, of course, your only option as a Kindle customer is the e-Book version, eliminating sales to people who want a hardcopy.


On Dec 1, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:

> When I signed up with them they had said that the 14% (or thereabouts) that they give is a favorable rate. I checked into it, and certainly a lot of places are more like 10%, so I'm willing to believe that their rate is decent.
> 
> As for self publishing, there are a handful of things that I'm not finding time to do, and getting 14% of a mass distributed item is better than getting 100% of something that I would never find the time to promote!
> 
> 
> On Dec 1, 2012, at 1:28 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Good on you! You deserve it. Seems like the ratios are off though, you should have got more.
>