: Focuses on providing a platform for buying and selling various intellectual property royalties, including literary works. Types of Royalty Assets
: A primary marketplace for music and book royalties where investors can bid on auctions for "life of rights" or "fixed term" royalty streams. buy book royalties
Individual investors typically acquire royalty rights through dedicated online marketplaces that facilitate auctions or direct sales between authors/rightsholders and buyers. : Focuses on providing a platform for buying
: Usually 10–15% for hardcovers and 5–8% for paperbacks. : Usually 10–15% for hardcovers and 5–8% for paperbacks
Buying book royalties—the process of acquiring the rights to future earnings from a book—is a specialized form of alternative investing. Rather than writing a book, you are purchasing an existing income stream.
: You acquire the income for a set period (e.g., 10 years), after which the rights revert to the original owner. Expected Royalty Rates (Standard Benchmarks)
: You own the rights for the entire duration of the copyright (typically the author's life plus 70 years). Saskatchewan Writers' Guild