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Frida Saal
Fanfiction
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| Manuscript screening: | No | ||
| Kind of contract: | Non-Exclusive | ||
| 2+2=5 | They reserve the right to produce additional versions without your consent. They reserve the right to change the terms of the agreement with 30 days prior notice. |
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| Distribution: | Through their site and online retailers mostly | ||
| Basic fees: | Paperback publishing | Basic paperback fee is $649.00. | |
| Hardcover publishing | Unknown | ||
| Combo publishing | Basic combo fee is $1,349.00 | ||
| Color publishing | $649.00 | ||
| eBook publishing | eBook publishing is bundled into their packages (this is probably not a good thing). Royalties are 50% of net receipts. |
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| Royalties: | Royalties are either 10% or 20% of payments received by the publisher (beware that this is not the same as a percentage of retail price). | ||
| Author's discount: | Unknown, the word 'discount' is not even mentioned in their contract, though they do specify that you will be paid no royalties in the copies you do purchase. | ||
| Break-even point: | Unknown seeing how their basic retail price is something of a mystery (probably between 500 and 700 copies based on other publishers' retail price). | ||
| Basic retail price: | Unknown. | ||
| Layout: | You must supply a ready to print file(?). | ||
| Graphics: | As many as you want seeing how you must provide your own layout (?). | ||
| Cover options: | You must submit your own (?). | ||
| Trim size: | You have a number of trim sizes to choose from. | ||
| Additional options: | They have a number of more expensive packages with setup fees going all the was up to $10,999.00. | ||
| Pros*: | *Good distribution. | ||
| Cons*: | *Expensive set-up fee *Low royalties on direct sales. *Unknown discount. *You can't opt-out of their eBook publishing. *You must supply your own interior layout. *There are some pretty serious problems with their contract. *There are too many unanswered question in their site. |
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| Comments*: | This is one of several large publishers that were bought by Author Solutions (the others being AuthorHouse, iUniverse and Xlibris). | ||
| The Bottom Line*: | An expensive set-up fee, combined with a few too many unknown factors, low royalties, a few dubious contract clauses and a bundled eBook publishing package that is far from favorable make this a company you may want to avoid. |
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| Last updated: 04-03-2013 | |||
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