I am not a censor. I promote all my published books through social media and other means and reach a wide variety of readers. Some I promote to specific genre related contacts.
Perhaps my question wasn't clear.
I wasn't asking if you censored anyone, nor did I suggest you did. You wrote in your Newbie thread,
WoolysWagon operates on the principle of all authors in our company helping one another based on the premise that increased traffic to the WoolysWagon site benefits everyone.
I was asking how you expect an author who writes erotica to promote the works of an author who writes children's books.
I know who is promoting, it reflects directly in the sales figures.
What are those sales figures likely to be for an author you publish?
Like any other publisher, I pay to the author a percentage of the royalties received from sales. That figure is what is reported to me by the sales outlets. That is what royalty means: the money gained from a sale.
If one received a portion of the sales price per sale it would be stated as such.
Royalties are earned per copy sold, for sure: but they're not the amount paid by the various sales outlets to publishers. At least, not at the various trade publishers I've worked for, or at the various trade publishers which have published my books.
Royalties are usually worked out as a percentage of the cover price of the book, or as a percentage of the cover price of the book less various specified expenses--this second way of calculating royalties due is the "net" I referred to in my previous comment.
It is extremely unusual for a publisher to take the revenue they receive from selling books and to split it 50:50 with their authors.
I pay the same royalty share percentage for ebook or paperback sales.
That's novel. And a difficult one for me to justify, in financial terms.
Some of my authors' book are available in stores. Some are in libraries.
Do your authors work to get them placed there, or do you have a full-service distributor working to sell your books into bookshops? Note this is not the same as having your books listed in various online retailers, or available on special order from bookshops.
As a publisher, services are provided in exchange for a portion of the sales revenue or royalty.
Sales revenue and royalty are not interchangeable terms.
As a self publisher you pay for those chosen services.
Only if you want to.
I offer to those authors that choose not to self publish or pay to vanity publish an opportunity to be published.
A vanity publisher is one which makes most of its money selling books or services to the authors it publishes.
What proportion of your income is derived from selling books to readers? And what proportion comes from selling books and/or services to writers?
My contracted authors are better informed and published at no upfront cost.
Do they pay you anything after publication?
Most authors will never see anything other than a rejection letter, if that, from one of the big publishers. Many will be ripped off by vanity publishers or a series of service providers on their way to self publishing or spend untold amounts to learn to do it themselves. Some don't want to do it themselves and can't afford to pay out of pocket for services. Are these authors' work any less deserving to be read than those who paid or learned to do it themselves, or even those picked up by the big publishers? No.
It depends what you mean by "less deserving to be read".
While I recognise it's hard work writing books I also recognise that not every book which is written is competently written, is of publishable standard, or is likely to find a readership if published.
Not all will sell millions of copies, not all are destined for awards. But I am helping dreams come true. I am helping put books out there to be read for all readers looking for a variety of genres. And I am not ripping authors off.
It's kind of you to want to help writers. No one here will think less of you for that.
But if you're publishing on the basis of helping writers' dreams come true you're not going to even cover your costs by selling books. You're going to have to earn your money some other way: and the only other way is to make those authors pay you. And that means you're a vanity publisher; and that rather than making dreams come true you're actually destroying them, because the writers who pay you to bring them to publication are extremely unlikely to recoup their costs, or to sell more than a handful of copies.
I offer a chance to be published, help if your story isn't ready, will not rip you off and offer one of the best royalty share percentages available.
With respect, you don't understand what "royalty" means and you seem oblivious to the tortured tautology of "royalty share percentages" so you can't know if you're offering "one of the best royalty share percentages available".
You don't lose total control of your book, I am honest about the business of selling books, about your work and your ideas and will challenge things I feel won't be in your best interest.
Writers don't "lose control" of their books when they work with good publishers, and it's either disingenuous or ignorant of you to imply that they do.
As for challenging things which aren't in a writer's best interests, that's what this thread is doing.
I apologize for crashing your party to offer some well intentioned help. I will retire from this post and seek out those discussions where my knowledge and conversation may be better received. This just happened to be the first discussion I came across and thought I saw a potential need for help from some authors who no longer had a publisher. I didn't look close enough to see what else resided here. My bad.
This thread is all about your publisher. The mods have split it from the thread in which you originally posted to avoid confusion. It's your chance to present yourself and your publisher and your publishing services in the best light possible.
As you've mentioned your knowledge, I'd appreciate an answer to my previous question. What experience do you have in publishing? What qualifies you to edit and publish the work of others? It would really help us understand where you're coming from if you'd give us at least a basic understanding of your professional background.
Where to start...