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Generally, a publisher pays you for the rights to publish your book. A publisher takes on all costs of publication and pays the author based on the contract signed. Self-published authors generally have to pay all production costs associated with publishing (binding, advertising, etc.), but reap all of the profit.

Self published authors usually keep all the primary and subsidiary publishing rights to their own work, and sign up with what's called a 'non-exclusive' contract, meaning they can enter into agreements with other publishers, traditional or otherwise, at the same time as publishing their book with the self publishing company. This arrangement is said to give self published authors more flexibility. A good example of a book publishing company that uses a non-exclusive contract is Schiel & Denver, which also pays 50% net royalties on copies sold in all formats.

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