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Well from The FAQ page of Beyond the Page it says this:
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I'm still not comfortable with the idea. So if a person sends their MS to BookEnds, and it's not something they want to represent, they flip the person to their "self-publishing" arm?
The whole -- service they provide to their clients -- idea is still a conflict in my view. A way to keep potential income rather than turning someone totally away with a "sorry it's not for us" rejection letter if they don't want to take it on in the normal agent/author relationship. That's still how I interpret it.
How is Beyond the Page connected to BookEnds Literary Agency?
Beyond the Page was started as a service to BookEnds clients who were asking for help, guidance, and their agent's participation in self-publishing ventures. Given the services we wanted to be able to provide our clients (including editing, copyediting, and marketing), we did not feel a traditional commission-based agency model was right for self-publishing. That's when Beyond the Page was created.
Beyond the Page is a completely separate company from BookEnds. All business plans, staff, and financials are separate, as are submissions.
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What are the payment arrangements?
Beyond the Page enters into a profit-sharing agreement with authors based entirely on sales for a set term of license. As in traditional publishing, where an author's advance and royalties are kept confidential, the specific terms of the profit-sharing agreement will be discussed only with individual authors who are interested in working with Beyond the Page.
I'm still not comfortable with the idea. So if a person sends their MS to BookEnds, and it's not something they want to represent, they flip the person to their "self-publishing" arm?
The whole -- service they provide to their clients -- idea is still a conflict in my view. A way to keep potential income rather than turning someone totally away with a "sorry it's not for us" rejection letter if they don't want to take it on in the normal agent/author relationship. That's still how I interpret it.