Whether you’re buying publishing services from a single vendor or from a set of freelancers, you have to do a cold calculation. Can you sell enough copies of your book to recoup your investment? In an earlier post, I talked about some of the costs that go into producing a …
Tag: Royalties
Why the traditional publishing model is broken
As we discussed last week, in the royalty or “traditional” publishing model, the publisher pays the author for rights to publish a book. That’s the simple explanation, but in fact there are all kinds of complications in this system. The up-front payment authors receive for their book is called an advance, …