Royalty Fees?
Royalty Fees?
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- vaxorcist0
One reason they may want "all the rights" is that they have no idea what they will need, or how much the book will sell, or how much promotion there will be money for, and they don't want to pay twice.
This is more convenient, business-wise, but ideally you really should get a commission for sales, because your cover art has an influence on sales, but such arrangements are often murky.
The publishing industry is in major change now.... getting a reasonable fee is a good thing, make sure you get it in a reasonable amount of time. Photographers often insert a clause in the contract that says "in the event of nonpayment after x date, all image usage rights revert to the photographer"
- publishers used to have sales projections, friends tell me whole industry is up in the air now....vaxorcist