: Re: Royalty rate for edition of estate-held text I am the literary executor of my father's estate. A relative has started work on producing a (probably very) limited non-professional edition of my

@Sherry594

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Normally the royalty rate you find online are calculated on the cover price, so 40% is very high.
The "reasonable range" is more line 10-25% with 15% being the most common. (25% for ebook, where there are no printing cost)

But the single number is not really important: the rate you are asking could not (and normally is not) be a fixed number: often royalty rates increase according to the number of books sold.

For example:

from 0 to X copies: 0% (to cover the transcription labour)
from X to Y copies: 10%
from Y to Z copies: 15%
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