„Scott Meyers: Advice To Prospective Book Authors” változatai közötti eltérés
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| − | <br> | + | <br> It is one (of many) reasons why I buy your books in bulk and provides them to the developers on our staff and our regular contractors. I desire when there are good reasons for an advance - resembling the need to take some time off from consulting to get the e-book executed - fairly than some need simply for reassurance. In the long run, I enhance my technical data, the books get extra correct over time and develop a repute for remaining related, and my readers be taught that they can help me enhance them. This is very relevant if one retains in mind the remark by creator Jeff Ullman that authors ought to by no means keep observe of how a lot time it takes them to write down a guide, because if they do, they'll be able to calculate how a lot they made per hour, and the result will nearly certainly be miserable. In fact, it is generally not doable to know which of two publishers will be able to sell more of your books, a lot less by what factor, so you'll want to pay attention carefully to your prospective publishers' marketing plans before deciding whom to climb in bed with.<br><br><br><br> Similarly, I do not give an excessive amount of thought to the multitude of provisions for sharing revenues from international translations, from selling the rights to supply my books as stage performs and motion pictures (yep, those provisions are in the contracts), and so on. There are other things I care about greater than those issues, so I go away my editor alone on these matters and save my political capital for different issues. I don't sign contracts frivolously. Agents may claim to learn about contracts, but only attorneys actually find out about contracts. For example, a guide that wholesales for $25 in the USA might wholesale for $5 in nations like India. By the way, don't be surprised if among the discounted copies supposed to be sold in nations like India find yourself on EBay, Amazon, or AbeBooks, thus competing together with your a lot-more-lucrative US gross sales. For such a large sale, your writer will probably be prepared to provide Microsoft a particular price, and your charge may be totally different (lower) for such deeply discounted sales. So if you move from, say, a 15% royalty fee to an 18% royalty fee at, say, 10,000 copies offered, that is usually 10,000 US gross sales, not 10,000 total sales.<br><br><br><br> This means that you simply is perhaps a runaway hit in Japan, however those sales do not help you progress as much as the next US royalty price. The US royalty rate may be tiered, e.g., X% for the primary n copies sold and Y% for all copies bought after that. In my experience, most technical authors find yourself publishing "trade books," a term that probably has some significance to publishers and bookstores, but that to me just means "sells to bookstores at 50% off listing price." In reality, the publishing trade is awash in phrases for the relationship between a e book's record price and the price the publisher usually sells it for (e.g., "long discount," "brief discount," "deep discount," and so on.). For non-"work for hire" authors for mainstream publishers (e.g., Addison Wesley, Prentice Hall, O'Reilly, Microsoft Press), I get the impression that the majority new-author royalty rates for US gross sales are the range of 10%-18%. Remember, nonetheless, the whole lot is negotiable. There are sometimes nonetheless extra charges, e.g., charges for copies sold by junk mail, and so forth. All are lower than the usual US rate.<br><br><br><br> Sometimes grant cash is dedicated for explicit purposes (e.g., cash for software or research may be known as a grant), but sometimes it actually quantities to a signing bonus. If you do not fulfill your finish of the bargain by delivering a publishable guide on time, you're contract-bound to pay the advance again (otherwise it might be a grant - see beneath), though I've heard that enforcement of this payback provision may be fairly lax. The true motive for this is that I hate getting a royalty statement that says I earned X dollars, but I do not get a test, as a result of my advance hasn't yet been paid back. But, as I said, I don't normally get them. As I said, this is just a theory of mine. Maybe you provide coaching or consulting companies, and you'd like to hand out copies of your ebook to all of your purchasers. Maybe you'd wish to be able at hand out copies to all your co-employees.<br> |
A lap 2024. március 11., 14:14-kori változata
It is one (of many) reasons why I buy your books in bulk and provides them to the developers on our staff and our regular contractors. I desire when there are good reasons for an advance - resembling the need to take some time off from consulting to get the e-book executed - fairly than some need simply for reassurance. In the long run, I enhance my technical data, the books get extra correct over time and develop a repute for remaining related, and my readers be taught that they can help me enhance them. This is very relevant if one retains in mind the remark by creator Jeff Ullman that authors ought to by no means keep observe of how a lot time it takes them to write down a guide, because if they do, they'll be able to calculate how a lot they made per hour, and the result will nearly certainly be miserable. In fact, it is generally not doable to know which of two publishers will be able to sell more of your books, a lot less by what factor, so you'll want to pay attention carefully to your prospective publishers' marketing plans before deciding whom to climb in bed with.
Similarly, I do not give an excessive amount of thought to the multitude of provisions for sharing revenues from international translations, from selling the rights to supply my books as stage performs and motion pictures (yep, those provisions are in the contracts), and so on. There are other things I care about greater than those issues, so I go away my editor alone on these matters and save my political capital for different issues. I don't sign contracts frivolously. Agents may claim to learn about contracts, but only attorneys actually find out about contracts. For example, a guide that wholesales for $25 in the USA might wholesale for $5 in nations like India. By the way, don't be surprised if among the discounted copies supposed to be sold in nations like India find yourself on EBay, Amazon, or AbeBooks, thus competing together with your a lot-more-lucrative US gross sales. For such a large sale, your writer will probably be prepared to provide Microsoft a particular price, and your charge may be totally different (lower) for such deeply discounted sales. So if you move from, say, a 15% royalty fee to an 18% royalty fee at, say, 10,000 copies offered, that is usually 10,000 US gross sales, not 10,000 total sales.
This means that you simply is perhaps a runaway hit in Japan, however those sales do not help you progress as much as the next US royalty price. The US royalty rate may be tiered, e.g., X% for the primary n copies sold and Y% for all copies bought after that. In my experience, most technical authors find yourself publishing "trade books," a term that probably has some significance to publishers and bookstores, but that to me just means "sells to bookstores at 50% off listing price." In reality, the publishing trade is awash in phrases for the relationship between a e book's record price and the price the publisher usually sells it for (e.g., "long discount," "brief discount," "deep discount," and so on.). For non-"work for hire" authors for mainstream publishers (e.g., Addison Wesley, Prentice Hall, O'Reilly, Microsoft Press), I get the impression that the majority new-author royalty rates for US gross sales are the range of 10%-18%. Remember, nonetheless, the whole lot is negotiable. There are sometimes nonetheless extra charges, e.g., charges for copies sold by junk mail, and so forth. All are lower than the usual US rate.
Sometimes grant cash is dedicated for explicit purposes (e.g., cash for software or research may be known as a grant), but sometimes it actually quantities to a signing bonus. If you do not fulfill your finish of the bargain by delivering a publishable guide on time, you're contract-bound to pay the advance again (otherwise it might be a grant - see beneath), though I've heard that enforcement of this payback provision may be fairly lax. The true motive for this is that I hate getting a royalty statement that says I earned X dollars, but I do not get a test, as a result of my advance hasn't yet been paid back. But, as I said, I don't normally get them. As I said, this is just a theory of mine. Maybe you provide coaching or consulting companies, and you'd like to hand out copies of your ebook to all of your purchasers. Maybe you'd wish to be able at hand out copies to all your co-employees.
