{"id":550,"date":"2009-10-08T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/reserves-against-returns.html"},"modified":"2009-10-08T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T10:40:00","slug":"reserves-against-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/reserves-against-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Reserves Against Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/Ss3B3Z42J2I\/AAAAAAAAC-Y\/fBgfmojXhE0\/s1600-h\/money_and_laptop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/Ss3B3Z42J2I\/AAAAAAAAC-Y\/fBgfmojXhE0\/s200\/money_and_laptop.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390177486618634082\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Angie asked the following question when she commented on my last blog entry:<br \/><em><strong>What are reserves against returns?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try and answer the best that I can! Reserves against returns is when your publisher holds back (meaning they don&#8217;t pay you) a portion of your royalties until they&#8217;ve received a greater majority of the returns on your book. When a publisher receives returns, they deduct your royalty amount for each return against your amount earned.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if you earned $500.00 in royalties, your publisher may decide to hold back $100.00 of this amount in reserve. As time goes on, maybe a year or so later, you might get $25.00 worth of returns &#8211; this $25.00 represents the amount in royalties you would have received if those books had sold. Once most of the returns are in, the publisher would then pay you the $100.00 minus the $25.00 in returns, netting $75.00 royalty check to you, the author.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed from the link that I posted that the author did not receive a royalty check on her April 2009 statement. This happens when you receive your first one or two statements, you might not get a check, or you might get a small check. I sense that this author will receive a royalty check on her next statement, or the one after that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chesapeake-Weddings-Romancing-America-Cecelia\/dp\/1602608024\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1253149065&#038;sr=8-2\">~Cecelia Dowdy~ <\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angie asked the following question when she commented on my last blog entry:What are reserves against returns? I&#8217;ll try and answer the best that I can! 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