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Old 02-07-2012, 08:46 PM   #82
Andrew NDB
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I assume IDW is turning a profit, what % of sales goes to Nick?
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Originally Posted by ToTheNines View Post
Again, licensing fees.
There's a chance I'm dead wrong and it probably varies from company to company and property to property, but I believe licensing fees for comics generally work as some kind of static, flat fee, not a %. "I intend to print X number of copies of X number of issues through X end date" to which the license holder goes, "OK, that will cost you X flat fee to do that."

Though if a book is successful and they want to increase output (more mini-series, a companion series, specials, reprints, etc.) then they have to go back and renegotiate their contract with Nick/Viacom.
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