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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.

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Let's get specific

  • Author Advantage partners with booksellers. This partnership is a commitment from the bookseller to collect a royalty payment on every book sold.

  • Author Advantage aggregates these royalty payments from all partners along with the supporting information surrounding the works sold.

  • Author Advantage retains a portion of the royalties in order to fund it's own operations.

  • Distributions of funds are executed once a year to minimize administrative burden and reduce expense.

  • Authors receive funds through existing channels, eliminating the need for registration or identity verification.

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Independent certification

Before the annual distribution of funds an independent audit is completed. This audit ensures that the funds collected from bookstores match exactly the amount to be distributed and that they are distributed within a reasonable period of time. This gives all parties confidence that the funds intended for writers are being distributed appropriately.

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