The advantages are many. Here are a few of our authors’ favorites:
HIGHEST ROYALTIES: Our 75% royalties cannot be topped. Those who claim that high or even 100% invariably charge thousands of dollars in enrollment fees, processing charges, annual renewals, pre-pay printing costs, author book-purchase requirements, and more. Divide all that into the number of books sold and you’ll see the difference. Another trick is to mark up the per-book production costs and pay a high percentage of the pittance left over. For example, would you rather earn 75% of $5 generated per book, or 100% of a dollar? Make them show their numbers like we do, and you’ll see why FIG royalties dominate the industry.
LOW COVER PRICES: Authors decide their own cover prices, but FIG offers recommendations that make selling to thrifty readers easy while generating good compensation. In more than twenty years we’ve yet to find a competitor offering lower production and worldwide distribution costs per book–even for as few as ONE book. When it’s time to set your cover price and wholesale discount rate, you’ll appreciate that kind of power and flexibility.
WEB MARKETING: FIG’s websites are designed to promote authors’ careers and their books. Members have their own pages in the primary FIG site, live social-media streaming, individual pages for each book, unlimited pages for posting short material from excerpts to teaser sample, and more–all controlled with individual password protected dashboards. Members even use their FIG presence to promote other material and projects not produced by FIG. Once you’re a member, we support you and and everybody supports each other in exciting new ways.
LOWEST COSTS: Whether you’re subsidy publishing or self-publishing with our author services, you cannot beat FIG’s costs. Nobody offers all of what FIG does for its authors. Those who try to come close charge way more and/or add budget-busting hidden charges, ongoing renewal levies, and processing fees. If you think you’ve found a better deal, talk to us first. FIG is not for every author. . . just the smart ones.
NIMBLENESS: FIG stays ahead of the changing industry, and keeps your books current, we constantly tweak our worldwide distribution for new markets. We adapt our e-book platforms to ensure maximum access in all the popular formats. We exploit clever new ideas to market all of our authors’ work. We don’t put your book out and forget about you. We build writing careers so each new book helps sell more of the earlier ones. Don’t be somebody’s “customer.” At FIG you deserve to be a MEMBER.
