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Deciphering Your Royalty Statement Moderator: "The dictionary on my desk at home defines decipher as 'to make out the meaning of (ancient inscriptions, illegible writing, etc)," said Rosenzweig. "Your editor might disagree, but that's expected, because most editors can't figure out authors' royalty statements either." Historically, he said, publishers designed their royalty statements to impart as little information as possible, and to obfuscate details as much as possible. Things have improved in the past two decades, but unevenly, by publisher, he said. This roundtable will examine sample statements, and participants are invited to bring copies of their statements to be analyzed and to have their questions answered. This roundtable is intended to be a primer for all authors: the newly published author who is baffled by the impenetrable semiannual mailings that purport to indicate what's happened to a title in the preceding six months, as well as veteran authors, who are pleased with the extra income (usually less than anticipated), but admit doubt as to why the amounts are what they are in the royalty statements. About the Moderator: Paul Rosenzweig is a Certified Public Accountant, who has worked for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. as Director of Subsidiary Accounting, and served as Vice President and Treasurer of Academic Press, Inc., a multinational publisher and distributor of technical books and scholarly journals. He was President of Royalty Review Service, Inc., which represented authors who wanted to confirm the accuracy of their royalty statements, and a consultant to the successor firm, Royalty Review LLC. Rosenzweig was Chairman of the Publishing and Printing Accounting Committee of the New York State Society of CPAs from 1988 to 1990, and served on the Society's Litigation Support and Publishing and Printing committees. He is a member of The Authors Guild and serves on Council of the Text and Academic Authors Association.
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