Unpublished Authors-Here’s the Way to Get Published

Posted by Jessica Murphy on March 12, 2010

Unpublished authors tend to ask me the same questions, and one of the most repetitive question which is always brought up is just how much royalty money do authors receive from publishing a book? So I figured I would write an article to address this subject.

Lots of unpublished authors hear that writers only receive a very small percentage from the selling price for each book. Well, it all depends. Plus there are more cost effective methods to publish your own book which I will go over as well.

Should you be represented by way of literary agent, you share the cut of the book’s profits with he/she from your very own royalty percentage. However, if you are not represented by an agent, you will then get all of whatever your royalty percentage is. Quite simply, if you just earn 7%, then an agent will require a percentage of it. (The agent’s percentage is generally 15%) Otherwise, the 7% will be yours.

If you self-publish a book, what you could do is go through some other resources and publish it free of charge, establishing the purchase price at what you want. They would simply take a small cut from the profits. However, marketing and promoting the book are expenditures you are going to bear alone.

With traditional publishing, the actual publisher can pay for the expenses, coupled with the cost of getting the book distributed, which is why royalties are only a small percentage for the author. Mainstream publishing involves lots of people and so the author has to share the profits with lots of people.

The great news is that internet self publishing is possible and you obtain more, however , you still need to invest money and market the books. With small publishing companies, unpublished authors can get more of a royalty percentage.

For more MUST READ tips and FREE writing e-book for unpublished authors, then visit http://firsttimeauthors.org and find book publishers looking for new authors.

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