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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ayrk" data-source="post: 993390" data-attributes="member: 2280">As a writer, I'd much rather have an upfront fee than a royalty.I've been paid both ways (granted these are for print books, not PDF) and royalties are a huge hassel. First off you have to wait a while for your money, which comes in small chuncks. You also are trusting the company to pay you correctly based on numbers you do not have access to.Now PDF is a little different, but in the print world, almost all the money a publisher makes on a book is done in the first two months of release, so really a royalty is much like a flat fee, just deferred 60 days.Of course in the PDF world you do not have to worry about the size of your print run and your sales can gradually increase due to word of mouth. Still I'd rather see a check for $250 rather than a series of 5 checks for $50 spread over a period of two years.But that is just my feeling. And I did get burned for over $1,000 when one of my publishers went bankrupt before they paid me. *Heavy sigh*.</blockquote>