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.
J.K. Rowling was the first billionaire author, not Tina Fey, and James Patterson sells more copies of his books than Tim Ferriss does (about 200 times more). In the end, top tier fiction authors make more than top tier non-fiction authors.(Not that itâs likely Iâll experience this first hand. have only written non fiction and memoir. In fact my first book was just published this past October, non fiction. I want my next book to be a novel and have fun using my imagination instead of working so hard with memory and facts, but the craft of it unnerves me.