Traditional Royalty Guidelines

The traditional royalties include:



Adult Trade - Hardcover,

• A basic royalty of 10 percent of suggested retail price on the first 5,000 copies sold,
  
• 12 1/2 percent on the next 5,000 copies, and
  
• 15 percent on all copies sold in excess of 10,000.
  
  

• A basic royalty starting at 10 percent
  
• Can escalating to 15 percent after an agreed-upon number of copies are sold.
  

Quality Paperback

(when the hardcover edition is published by us or as a paperback original)

• A royalty of 6 percent of retail price on the first 10,000 copies (or the first print run if it is less than 10,000 copies)
  
• An increase to 7 1/2 percent for copies sold in excess of 10,000.
  
  

Mass Market Paperback

(when the hardcover edition is published by us or as a paperback original),

• A royalty of 6 percent of retail price on the first 150,000 copies sold with an increase to 8 percent there after.
  
  
  
  

Professional, Scientific, or Technical books,

• A royalty based on 15% of net price will be established.
  
• For hardcover textbooks, the royalty is 18 percent after 7,500 or 10,000 books have been sold Higher thereafter as negotiated.
  

Textbooks which originate in Paperback,

• The royalty will be in the range of 10 to 15 percent of net price.
  

• Sales at a higher than normal discount to wholesalers or retailers. Such discounts are due to purchasing large quantities of books.
  
  Sales by mail order or direct response advertising.
  
• Sales on small reprintings, such as 1,000 copies or less
  
• Sales for export, to reading circles, to book clubs, and to organizations
  
• Sales as a remainder (when excess inventory is liquidated), if at a discount of 70 percent or more,
  
• Finally, promotional copies, author’s copies, and copies which are destroyed are royalty free.
  

View our Standard Book Publishing Agreement