Those who know me or follow me closely are probably aware that I still get royalties for work that I did before I moved from Southampton to Portsmouth. This concerns books published by “real publishers”, as opposed to “by myself”. I get royalties over the purchases as well as lending fees (libraries).

(I also occasionally get Amazon royalties and Udemy royalties, but that’s still relatively rare and this is not what I am talking about here.)

Through sheer coincidence, I discovered that e-book versions have meanwhile appeared of many of those works. As I was not aware of their existence up to that point, I hadn’t submitted any of those e-books to the Dutch organization that processes and pays out the royalties for those books.

I’ve recently added them to my portfolio. The related payments slowly started to come in after I did that. I just received three more specifications. Particularly the pandemic seems to have made a difference for e-lending.

There’s one book of which I wrote a small portion and that I haven’t added yet. As I don’t remember having made sure at the time that my contribution was going to be mentioned in the book, I don’t think that trying to submit it to my portfolio is going to be worth my while.