>>106342515Royalty fees usually don't amount to much, especially in the realm of comic books. And consumers are already paying the royalty fee anyway, it's in the cost of the book. So, if even someone like Chuck Dixon, for example, only got a 1% or 2% royalty on something like... Nightwing Vol. 1, for example, he'd need to move 30,000 trades at $20 per pop just to get $12,000. Keep in mind, as well, that in 2018, The new Infinity Gauntlet trade only moved 40,458 copies via comic book shops (could be more with book stores), and had an Avengers movie to back it. Another issue with royalties is that sometimes, for example, your book has to reach a certain sales number before royalties are ever dispersed (ie. Nightwing Vol. 1 could have to shift 50,000 copies before DC ever disperses a cent to Dixon and McDaniel). DC also gets to take people like Diamond out of the equation; they print, package, and ship to the customer and only have to deal with the customer.
