Comparative Fees for Children's Book Illustration
Picture Books	ADVANCE	ROYALTY	ROYALTY EXCALATION
Illustrations only	$3000 - 12000	3 - 6%	6.25%
Illustrations and text	4000 - 15000	5 - 10%	4.5 - 15%
Use Beyond Original Hardcover Edition			ROYALTY
Publisher's direct sales			2.5 - 10% of net sales
Remainder sales			2.5 - 10% of net sales
Canadian sales			3 - 10% of net sales
Publisher's own paperback edition			2.5 - 6% of list price
Subsidiary Rights Sales
Percentage of receipts			25 - 50%
Foreign publisher, translation, or English-language edition			25 - 80% of net sales
First serial, dramatic TV, notion picture			25 - 85%
Domestic reprint, paperback, book club, digest, anthology or serial, merchandising, audiovisual, sound recording			25 - 65% of net sales
Based on a 32-page picture book. Royalty percentages are based on the list price of the book. The escalating percentage is the amount to which the royalty increases after a certain number of sales. Low end of these ranges may reflect a split royalty with text author.

 

Comparative Fees for Book Jacket Illustration
HARDCOVER	FRONT COVER	WRAPAROUND	PAPERBACK	FRONT COVER	WRAPAROUND
Mass market books	$1500 - 6000	$2000 - 7000	Mass market books	$1200 - 5000	$2025 - 6000
Trade books			Trade books
Major distribution	$1200 - 3000	$2000 - 5000	Major distribution	1000 - 3000	1500 - 4750
Minor distribution	1000 - 2500	1500 - 4000	Minor distribution	750 - 2500	1000 - 3000
Mass market books appeal to a large audience and are sold in stores other than major retail book stores. Trade books are mostly hardcover and are sold almost exclusively in retail book stores.			Young adult books	1000 - 2500	1200 - 3500
			Textbooks	750 - 2200	1000 - 3000