Ocean warming doubles in recent decades. Lawrence Livermore, NOAA and partner scientists quantify heat accumulating in global ocean. Editor's note: The following web story was provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The original story can be found by clicking here on the Lawrence Livermore website.
Libraries: Public and school libraries that purchase books directly from the publisher or wholesaler (e.g., Baker & Taylor). Authors make: Royalties on cover price of LIBRARY's purchase. Authors do NOT make royalties when the book is checked out. Sales: Varies from library to library based on library budgets. Benefit to author: Readers might discover an author in the library and then buy that author's books new. If books are popular, libraries will buy more copies of the author's next book.
That system allows authors to bypass traditional publishers and instead deal directly with Amazon, which claims to be able to publish their books digitally in hours .. The authors receive 70% of the royalties from the sale of these books. And some of them are doing quite well. Most of my months are six-figure months, said Hugh Howey, a 37-year-old Florida author whose Wool series of digital books was highlighted by Amazon. It's more than I ever hoped to make in a year..