Royalties on my jazz book for 2021

[Larry Kart]

$68.05. Not bad for a book that was published in 2004. And I think that may be more than it earned in many previous years. My thanks to Yale for keeping it in print.

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:

$68.05. Not bad for a book that was published in 2004. And I think that may be more than it earned in many previous years. My thanks to Yale for keeping it in print.

That's awesome!  In 2021, I earned a whopping $172.21 from my 2014 album.  I have a closet full of them. I should sell them on Amazon for $1.99 a throw.  

[felser]

5 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

$68.05. Not bad for a book that was published in 2004. And I think that may be more than it earned in many previous years. My thanks to Yale for keeping it in print.

i own it.  It's a really rewarding read!

[JSngry]

Hey Larry, can you loan me $100.00?

[Chuck Nessa]

5 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

That's awesome!  In 2021, I earned a whopping $172.21 from my 2014 album.  I have a closet full of them. I should sell them on Amazon for $1.99 a throw.  

I take it that is gross billing, not profit.

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I take it that is gross billing, not profit.

We broke even on it a long time ago.

[GA Russell]

8 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

$68.05. Not bad for a book that was published in 2004. And I think that may be more than it earned in many previous years. My thanks to Yale for keeping it in print.

Larry, does that mean that you enjoyed new cash-paying customers last year?

I remember reading a Mose Allison interview in which he said he received a negative royalty for the quarter.  He said that no one bought any of his records, and two people brought back their albums and demanded their money back!

7 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

That's awesome!  In 2021, I earned a whopping $172.21 from my 2014 album.  I have a closet full of them. I should sell them on Amazon for $1.99 a throw.  

TTK, I'll buy one!

[medjuck]

I once got a residual check for  5 cents. 

[Rabshakeh]

11 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

$68.05. Not bad for a book that was published in 2004. And I think that may be more than it earned in many previous years. My thanks to Yale for keeping it in print.

Read it this year, so glad to be a part of that.

[BillF]

Fan: I really liked your album!

Jazz musician: Ah, so you're the one who bought it!

Can't remember which musician I heard that one from. 

Edited April 4, 2022 by BillF

[Larry Kart]

13 hours ago, JSngry said:

Hey Larry, can you loan me $100.00?

Got that earmarked for Jim and the board.

10 hours ago, GA Russell said:

Larry, does that mean that you enjoyed new cash-paying customers last year?

 

 

 

Apparently so.

Some years ago I bought a carton of 30 or so remaindered copies from the Jazz Record Mart, which at the time was stocking up on remaindered jazz books from some clearing house. Over the years I gave all but two of them away to interested parties.

BTW I love the image on the cover. It's a circa 1957 photo of Ira Sullivan (on tenor), Johnny Griffin, and bassist Nevin Wilson. Don't think it's from a Monday night session at the Gate of Horn, but the vantage point is from that of a front row seat there.

[sgcim]

On 4/2/2022 at 5:08 PM, Teasing the Korean said:

That's awesome!  In 2021, I earned a whopping $172.21 from my 2014 album.  I have a closet full of them. I should sell them on Amazon for $1.99 a throw.  

Can you post a link to your album?

[Kevin Bresnahan]

On 4/3/2022 at 5:55 AM, BillF said:

Fan: I really liked your album!

Jazz musician: Ah, so you're the one who bought it!

Can't remember which musician I heard that one from. 

I've lost track of how many musicians have said that to me. In a few cases, it was close to the truth though.

[riddlemay]

On 4/2/2022 at 2:42 PM, Larry Kart said:

My thanks to Yale for keeping it in print.

As well they should. 

[AllenLowe]

it is one of the best collections ever of jazz writing.

University Presses are notorious for not paying a lot. Though it's not the way everyone wants to do it, the smartest thing I ever did was to publish Turn Me Loose White Man myself. After the WSJ article I made a lot of money on the project (including the CDs). Paid my property tax for at least two years.