Comparative Fees for Book Interior Illustration

Oct 13, 2011 by Art-d

Comparative Fees for Book Interior Illustration
Adult Hardcover Books			Young Adult Books
Major publisher or large distribution			Major publisher or large distribution
	B/W	COLOR		B/W	COLOR
Spread	$1000 – 2000	$1200 – 3200	Spread	$400 – 1500	$800 – 2000
Full page	500 – 1500	900 – 2500	Full page	300 – 750	400 – 1500
Half page	250 – 1000	475 – 1800	Half page	150 – 400	200 – 1000
Quarter page	150 – 700	375 – 1000	Quarter page	100 – 375	150 – 500
Spot	100 – 450	200 – 750	Spot	75 – 300	100 – 400
Small publishers or limited distribution			Small publishers or limited distribution
Spread	$750 – 1200	$1000 – 3000	Spread	$400 – 1000	$500 – 1500
Full page	225 – 700	750 – 1500	Full page	300 – 500	375 – 1200
Half page	150 – 500	400 – 1000	Half page	150 – 300	220 – 600
Quarter page	125 – 400	200 – 800	Quarter page	75 – 125	150 – 250
Spot	100 – 200	150 – 400	Spot	50 – 150	100 – 150
College Textbooks			Elementary Thru High School Textbooks
Spread	$450 – 1000	$750 – 2000	Spread	$400 – 1000	$750 – 1500
Full page	400 – 750	500 – 1200	Full page	300 – 750	400 – 1000
Half page	250 – 500	375 – 1000	Half page	200 – 450	300 – 600
Quarter page	150 – 250	200 – 375	Quarter page	100 – 350	100 – 375
Spot	60 – 150	80 – 200	Spot	60 – 150	80 – 200
Juvenile Workbooks
Spread	$300 – 1200	$300 – 1750
Full page	200 – 750	300 – 1000
Half page	150 – 500	200 – 600
Quarter page	100 – 350	125 – 400
Spot	50 – 250	50 – 300

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