{"id":8354,"date":"2011-03-30T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8354"},"modified":"2011-03-30T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:59:31","slug":"publisher-raises-royalty-rate-for-authors-on-ebook-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8354","title":{"rendered":"Publisher raises Royalty rate for authors on eBook sales."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Publisher bumps up royalty rates to remain competitive...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/digital\/content-and-e-books\/article\/46660-other-press-raises-digital-royalty-rate-to-50-.html\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Publishers Weekly<\/strong><\/a> posts on publisher <strong>Other Press <\/strong>raising its author royalty on eBook sales from the industry <strong>25%<\/strong> to a full <strong>50%<\/strong> because they&#8217;re &#8220;an author-driven house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, this publisher is scrambling to remain relevant in a marketplace that is rapidly removing middlemen from the exchange between author and reader. With Amazon.com offering authors a <strong>70%<\/strong> royalty for direct eBook sales, well the writing is on the wall for publishers who want a cut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishers Weekly posts on publisher Other Press raising its author royalty on eBook sales from the industry 25% to a full 50% because they&#8217;re &#8220;an author-driven house.&#8221; In other words, this publisher is scrambling to remain relevant in a marketplace that is rapidly removing middlemen from the exchange between author and reader. With Amazon.com offering &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8354\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,5,8,15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8354"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8360,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354\/revisions\/8360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}