Observed arrival · 2026-09-18
Cetak Terbaca — The Missing Detail in a Royalty Statement
An Indonesian publishing-transparency project examines what authors can and cannot see in book royalty statements.
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- Authors trying to understand opaque royalty statements
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- It distinguishes reported sales from returns, review copies, distributor records, and the retailer discount behind net receipts.
Field notes
The page uses a single royalty statement as its organizing artifact, contrasting its visible totals with the records behind them. Its example includes 4,200 copies, ten percent of net receipts, a returns figure without a period, and a later deduction for promotion. The project says it is independent of publishers, distributors, literary agents, and collecting societies, and does not itself calculate royalties or interpret contracts.
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