More Ruminations on Royalties Richard Charkin’s post on the possibility of moving to simplified royalties based on a publisher’s receipts has drawn a variety of comments from US agents, including Jeff Gerecke (reporting on an AAR committee investigation of the topic, and questioning the “transparency and auditability”); Andrew Zack (writing on the abuse of high-discount clauses, the complexity of discount schedules, and the possibility of a flat per-book royalties among other things); and Scott Hoffman (who “strongly supports a fully open and transparent move to a system that was based on actual amounts received by publishers” — while arguing for […]
