Sales and Royalties

As your publisher, we are the primary point of contact for book sales and distribution, for which we retain a percentage (10%) of net sales as outlined below and detailed in our publishing agreement. You receive the majority of royalties, distributed to you on a quarterly basis, which is industry standard. For details on sales and royalties, please read this page carefully.

Large traditional publishers are able to pay authors an advance on royalties, usually in two or three installments (or even more) based on certain dates or events, such as full manuscript acceptance followed by initial publication. Pogenon Books focuses solely on net royalties for payment to authors without an advance on sales.

As per terms in our agreement with you, the author, we pay royalties on each copy of the paperback edition sold through regular wholesale and retail channels. As the author, you retain 90% of the publisher’s net receipts on all copies sold, less actual returns. Simply put, if your book royalties in a calendar quarter (January through March) amount to $1,000, we send you $900 within 60 days of the close of that quarter. Pogenon Books retains $100. If within that quarter there are books returned to the publisher amounting to $100, the net royalties would be $900. Pogenon Books would send you $810 and retain $90.

This payment model is the reverse of large publishing houses who typically pay authors 10% of net sales.

For eBook sales, Pogenon Books pay author royalties on each copy of the electronic edition of your book 50% of net receipts on all copies sold. Large publishers typically pay only 25% of net receipts. In keeping with our model to pay higher than industry standards, we pay double what other publishers pay on eBook net receipts.

Using the standard quarterly basis for calculating sales and royalties allows us to close each quarter’s receipts with enough time to settle any returns. Our accounting year uses a standard annual calendar (January through December) for each quarter, followed by a 60-day period in which all accounting is closed and royalty payments distributed. Here is our accounting time frame:

Note that our accounting calendar represents a typical calendar year without weekends or holidays represented. In the case of weekends and/or holidays, our accounting activities may not fall strictly within the given time frames. In every case, however, Pogenon Books will meet payment dates for royalties either on or before the listed dates.

Information on this page is intended to answer most anticipated questions about the sales and royalty payments for books selected for publication. Feel free to contact us with any other questions.