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?
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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.