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The email from PA states "All sales will be counted, since publishers don't distinguish between bookstores and individuals buying their books. Even books bought by the authors count!" So they are suggesting that a publisher doesn't distinguish whether a bookstore or the author buy the book? Even a Vanity press counts the percentages and (or if) royalties are involved differently between those two.
Does any other publisher *give* royalties to authors on the purchase of their own books? That is like getting back dividends on life insurance - a refund on a bit of the premium to sweeten the cost of the insurance in the buyer's eyes.
The email from PA states "All sales will be counted, since publishers don't distinguish between bookstores and individuals buying their books. Even books bought by the authors count!" So they are suggesting that a publisher doesn't distinguish whether a bookstore or the author buy the book? Even a Vanity press counts the percentages and (or if) royalties are involved differently between those two.
Does any other publisher *give* royalties to authors on the purchase of their own books? That is like getting back dividends on life insurance - a refund on a bit of the premium to sweeten the cost of the insurance in the buyer's eyes.