Are you thinking of publishing a book and don't know how much you can earn from it? A writer's life is not easy, is it? You do not receive anything for the time you work, after the finished work, the acceptance process by the publishers is still complicated and when they accept the annual earnings they do not cover the amount earned from employment that you have to keep to pay the accounts.
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In Brazil, authors earn an average of 8% to 10% of the price at which each copy is sold in bookstores, also known as cover price.
The author's percentage is lower when contracts with publishers make exceptions for special sales, such as the sale of large numbers of books to government institutions.
In addition, very large publishers tend to have contracts with smaller percentages when they invest a lot in publicizing the author and make high print runs, for example, of textbooks and paradidactics that usually earn less than textbooks. fiction.
In general, publishers advance an amount to be agreed upon for the author, an amount that he receives before sales and which the books sold are deducted from the amount.
The author only gets paid again when sales of copies exceed the amount already received by him previously.
Some very small publishers, with no cash flow to do so, pay the author on their closing dates, normally every 3 months.
If you're not a celebrity, and aren't related to one, and don't own a chain of bookstores, a television channel or a major newspaper, your chances of getting rich with the first publication of a book are almost void.
That's because, following the market rules already mentioned, a print run of two thousand copies of a book that costs about R$ 20, you will receive for each book sold only R$ 2.
So, if the edition sells out in a year, which is very good for a new author, you will only receive R$ 4,000 if you manage to sell the print run of 2,000. The value is still divided into half-yearly settlements, generally without correction.
For a novice writer to manage to sell all the books, from a first edition, it is very complicated, even because of that amount there are still the disclosure copies that are sent to the press, and you do not earn anything for them.
That is, for those who still do not have a captive audience, the final value gained from the sale may be much lower.
Successful authors often have a strategy for gaining an audience and making money as a writer. However, the path that is explained by the publisher formed by the University of São Paulo (USP), Laura Bacellar, in the blog “Write Your Book”, is also not guaranteed, you will have to take a risk.
Check out the editor's tip:
Successful authors usually all start with a modest first book that doesn't sell much but paves the way for subsequent ones.
When you manage to conquer an audience that is faithful to your style of literature, or that is always looking for a certain type of book non-fiction (like self-help, marketing, chemistry classes, gardening), you start earning money from a series of books.
For example, let's say you invent a new way to train guard dogs and write a book. The former may be well-received only by veterinarians and other trainers and sell an issue slowly.
But if you realize that you have discovered a vein (from articles in specialized journals, from letters from those who bought it, from the reaction of professionals in the field), you can write a second book emphasizing the speed of his method and adding, for example, a step-by-step program for anyone to train their pastor in ten days.
If it succeeds, you can then write a third just about queue dogs, and so on. With a topic that interests the public and an original, accessible approach, you can make a lot of money by building a whole series. Then, the sales of the third book pull those of the first and lead to the reprinting of the second.
People who like one of your books are more likely to risk buying another one. You become a household name for booksellers when someone asks about dog training works. And so it goes.
This type of movement is characteristic of almost all high-selling authors, you can check it out. The same kind of reasoning goes for fiction, when an author discovers a subgenre – like historical novels, or scuba adventures, or even detective lawyers – very specific, preferably with a hero or in an inimitable style, which has wide acceptance by the public.
Publishers pay better for novel writers, and fiction books, which are also more attractive and have greater acceptance by people. Forbes magazine surveyed the ten highest-paid writers in the world. Step by step, perhaps following the tip of the USP publisher mentioned above, you will arrive at the annual earnings of the creators of one of the greatest works of bestseller.
See the list of authors and books:
1 - James Patterson – Double Frame for Cross and First to Die – 70 million dollars
2 – Stephenie Meyer – author of the series Twilight
3 – Stephen King – Many of his works have been adapted for film. Among them, “Conta Comigo”, “Waiting for a Miracle” and “A Dream of Freedom”.
4 – Danielle Steel – The House on Esperança Street, Secrets of Love and Family Albums
5 – Ken Follett – Pillars of the Earth Series and the last book World Without End
6 – Dean Koontz – The Dark Paths of the Heart and Speed
7 – Janet Evanovich – Book series of the character Stephanie Plum
8 – John Grisham – A Time to Kill and The Last Juror
9 – Nicholas Sparks – Dear John, A Walk to Remember, The Last Song
10 – J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter Series
(Sources: Write Your Book, Exame magazine)
