The Birth of Territory is forthcoming in Chinese translation. While this is good news, it’s hardly the path to riches. The royalty rate is 7%, rising to 8% in the unlikely event of it selling more than 10,000 copies. This is split between me and the publisher, so I’ll get 50% of that rate. Then there is a “10% agency commission”, and of course this is all taxable. So I think the eventual rate is about 1.9%… This is of publisher net receipts, not cost at point of sale. For a book that gives the publisher $20, I’ll see about 38 cents. We don’t write academic books for the money, but even so!