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YOUR OPTIONS: 1. Summit Bay publishes your book and you get 25% royalties, or, 2. We help you publish your book on Amazon and you get 100% royalties.
A client wrote: One of my books was published through a traditional publisher and I thought I had it made–the big time. Although they set up a few radio interviews to promote the book, got it on the shelves at Barnes & Noble, set it up on Amazon, and listed it in the Ingram Distribution catalog for stores to order, their help ended there. To sell the book, I had to do all kinds of marketing. I was further disillusioned when the royalties came in. Royalties were supposed to be 40% for regular sales, but after returns were calculated, my royalties ended up at 5%, overall. Four years later, they sold 16 books and my royalty was $3.67. The publisher finally did an EPUB (Electronic Publication–Nook, Kindle, etc.) version, but refused to let me make a change to the manuscript before it was published. I was perplexed at the time, but now that I know how easy it is to make changes, I find their actions criminal and unprofessional. The first run was 2,000 paperback books and I worked my butt off to sell over 1,000. The publisher collected the lion’s share of the royalties. A silver lining? Well, if you don’t have a “best seller,” at least you get the prestige of telling folks that a “real” publisher picked up your book. But that’s about it–a temporary boost to your ego.
IF YOU’VE BEEN PUBLISHED
Does any of the note above sound familiar to you? If you are going to do all the hard marketing work, why not get a larger profit?
IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN PUBLISHED
You’ve written one or more books and have struggled for years, trying to get a publisher or agent to work with you, to no avail. The problem? Publishers and agents want to make money and they have very specific ideas about what they are looking for, writing styles that sell, and what makes a potential best seller.
So what’s the answer? You have two options:
1. Summit Bay publishs your book and you receive 25% royalties, or
2. Publish the book yourself with a little guidance for 100% royalties.
NOTE: We do not market your book. There are many websites that either discuss marketing ideas you can do or offer marketing services.
