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children's book is calculated February Why do traditional children's or youth publishers only give 10% royalties in royalties? Is it a lot or is it a little? Who gets the remaining 90%? How is the royalty percentage of a children's book calculated? There are many questions that new authors ask when they are informed that they will only receive 10% of the RRP of their books sold in distribution. From our experience, as a traditional children's publisher , we know that it is one of the issues that bothers you the most or that raises the most doubts, so, below, we will explain how the percentage of royalties for a children's book is calculated and who are the agents that interfere with them. It is very likely that you have already tested the world of self-publishing and have been promised “all kinds of goodness”: Many new authors tell us: at “x” publisher they give us 30% or even 40% of the RRP. Clear! because they are your books , the books that you self-published authors have previously paid for. That is, when you self-publish, you finance 100% of the printing of the books that the children's or youth publisher puts into distribution (if they put them). Don't forget that they are your books: it is logical that, if they are sold, they will give you a high percentage of the sales, with the self-publishing publisher keeping a small percentage for management expenses.
If a self-publishing publisher offers less than a 40% royalty Italy Telegram Number Data to their self-published authors, be wary of them. Now yes: We explain how the royalty percentage of a children's book is calculated ARTICLE INDEX The distributor The bookstores Print What are the costs derived from editing, publication, distribution, promotion, etc. How much does the author of a children's book earn? What percentage of royalties does the author receive? The editorial A complicated market but full of illusions If you think it could be us, don't hesitate! Contact and make your dreams come true. More information The distributor As we already told you, when a children's or youth book enters the traditional distribution circuit, many participants come into play, among which the DISTRIBUTOR stands out.
If it is a national distributor , it takes 55% of the RRP of the children's or youth book, or even 60% if it is a special time like the literary fairs between April and May! Why does he keep so much? The bookstores Well, because BOOKSTORES usually receive between 30% and 45% from them , depending on whether it is an independent bookstore or whether it is an important chain in the sector, such as Corte Inglés, Fnac, Amazon or Casa del Libro (these The latter take 45% of the RRP , but all authors like their children's or youth book to be present in them, right? At this point, the children's or youth publishing company already has only approximately 40-45% . It's very hard, yes, but that's how it is, dear authors! Print Next, a new agent enters, the printing press . The usual thing is that the production cost of children's or young people's books ranges between 16-20% of the RRP of each book. If the cost were higher, we would incur losses, which is why we must always keep production costs in mind. From this unit production cost we extract (by mathematical calculation) the RRP of each children's or youth book.
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