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Cup of Coffee newsletter (Craig Calcaterra), 3 November 2025, reprint of Arcadia Publishing's 'Royalty Opportunity' email

2 records were read from this source, dated 31 Oct 2025 to 3 Nov 2025.

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Last checked 15 Oct 2026

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Record	Kind	As stated	Dated
One-time AI training royalty Arcadia Publishing offered a Belt Publishing author (Rethinking Fandom, 2022) in its second round of sublicensing to an unnamed major technology company, opt-out by default	Price observation	$355 per title (author's royalty, one-time use)	31 Oct 2025
Opt-in book licences pay authors several times what opt-out ones do	Negotiation lever	Where authors had to opt in, HarperCollins paid them $2,500 a title. Where inclusion was…	3 Nov 2025

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