Glenn Yeffeth

Glenn Yeffeth is CEO and publisher of BenBella Books, a publishing boutique with 10 recent New York Times bestsellers, and twice named one of Publishers Weekly’s fastest-growing publishers.

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• Are book royalties fair?

  Tuesday, November 12, 2013

  ​E-book royalty rates have been an ongoing topic of ferocious debate. The industry standard has coalesced around 25 percent of net revenues, but this is far from a settled issue, with the Authors Guild and others challenging the fairness of this rate. Royalties on physical books, on the other hand, have been standardized for a longer period of time and are rarely challenged. But maybe they should be.