| Unpublished authors tend to ask me the same | | | | If you self-publish a book, what you can do is go |
| questions, and one of the most repetitive | | | | through other resources and publish it for free, |
| question which is always brought up is just how | | | | setting the price at what you want. They would |
| much royalty money do authors receive from | | | | just take a small slice of the profits. However, |
| publishing a book? So I figured I would write an | | | | marketing and promoting the book are expenses |
| article to address this subject. | | | | you will bear alone. |
| A lot of writers hear that authors only receive a | | | | With traditional publishing, the actual publisher will |
| small percentage of the selling price per book. | | | | pay for the expenses, combined with the cost of |
| Well, it depends. And also there are other cost | | | | getting the book distributed, which is why |
| effective methods to publish your book which I | | | | royalties are only a small percentage to the |
| will go over as well. | | | | author. Mainstream publishing entails many people |
| If you are represented by an agent, you share | | | | and so the author has to share the profits with |
| your cut of the book's profits with he/she out of | | | | many people. |
| your own royalty percentage. If you are not | | | | The good news is that internet self publishing can |
| represented by an agent, you then receive all of | | | | be done and you acquire more, but you still need |
| whatever your royalty percentage is. In other | | | | to invest money and market the books. With |
| words, if you just earn 7%, then an agent will | | | | small publishing companies, unpublished authors can |
| take a percentage of it. (The agent's percentage | | | | get more of a royalty percentage. |
| is usually 15%) Otherwise, the 7% is yours. | | | | |