How Author Advantage Works
Author Advantage is recognized for its distinctive quality mark—but it’s much more than that. Through a unique royalty model, Author Advantage supports writers, booksellers, and readers, helping to build a stronger, fairer literary ecosystem for everyone involved.
Let's get specific
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Author Advantage partners with booksellers. This partnership is a commitment from the bookseller to collect a royalty payment on every book sold.
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Partners display the Author Advantage Quality Mark to announce their commitment publicly. The quality mark that partners display is the Author Advantage Logo.
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Author Advantage aggregates these royalty payments from all partners along with the supporting information surrounding the works sold.
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Author Advantage retains a portion of the royalties in order to fund it's own operations.
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Distributions of funds are executed once a year to minimize administrative burden and reduce expense.
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Authors receive funds through existing channels, eliminating the need for registration or identity verification.
Independent certification
Once a year a third party performs an independent audit. This audit ensures that the funds collected from bookstores match exactly the amount distributed and that they are distributed within agreed timeframes. The audit timing is selected by the auditor an unannounced to ensure maximum reliability and control