The ebook contracts I've seen all base net revenue off the sales price, although sometimes they use the word "receipts" instead of specifying what price we're talking about, but that's small press. I don't know what the standard is for larger presses?
I think a larger concern is that Amazon isn't itemizing expenses. Again, just based on the contracts I've seen from small presses paying royalty payments, the small presses list things like taxes, fees to agents/credit cards, remainders, shipping, things like that. Admittedly the last two wouldn't apply to ebooks, but I would think the fees to agents (payments made to websites that direct readers to Amazon) would? Unless Amazon is not including fees as expenses, but they have something there about credit card fees so I'm thinking they do?
"Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including global publication rights, for the term of copyright."
Given that the fanfic writers have no rights to these worlds in the first place, this probably sounds fine, but this is DEFINITELY not industry standard unless you are specifically writing a work for hire, which I guess is how they are framing this.
Mind you, you can still have rights tied up by, not at all at random, Bank of America thanks to some general screwups on the part of a lot of people (including me) but that doesn't make that standard.
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Date: 2013-05-22 02:58 pm (UTC)Uh, is that really industry standard for ebooks? It sure as heck isn't for paper books.
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Date: 2013-05-22 03:10 pm (UTC)I think a larger concern is that Amazon isn't itemizing expenses. Again, just based on the contracts I've seen from small presses paying royalty payments, the small presses list things like taxes, fees to agents/credit cards, remainders, shipping, things like that. Admittedly the last two wouldn't apply to ebooks, but I would think the fees to agents (payments made to websites that direct readers to Amazon) would? Unless Amazon is not including fees as expenses, but they have something there about credit card fees so I'm thinking they do?
Pure guesswork on my part.
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Date: 2013-05-22 03:16 pm (UTC)"Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including global publication rights, for the term of copyright."
Given that the fanfic writers have no rights to these worlds in the first place, this probably sounds fine, but this is DEFINITELY not industry standard unless you are specifically writing a work for hire, which I guess is how they are framing this.
Mind you, you can still have rights tied up by, not at all at random, Bank of America thanks to some general screwups on the part of a lot of people (including me) but that doesn't make that standard.