Figures / Prices
$2,750 per book or title
Text and archives, sales that happened, per book or title
The median of 10 public prices for text and archives on the sales that happened side, each stated per book or title (a range counts as its geometric midpoint; the middle half runs from $881 to $3,082; 2 open-ended figures are listed but not averaged).
Updated 17 Oct 2026, from its newest record.
The 12 records it is computed from, largest first
- Amount$1.5BAs stated$1.5 billion for 482,460 WorksDated20 Jul 2026SourceBartz v. Anthropic, Order Granting Final…
- Amount$1.4BAs stated$1.5 billion less $101,561,111 fees, $2,635,197.46 expenses, $18,220,000 cost…Dated20 Jul 2026SourceBartz v. Anthropic, Order Granting Final…
- Amount$5KAs stated$5,000 per titleDated25 Nov 2024SourcePublishers Weekly
- Amount$3KAs statedapproximately $3,000 per work, from a $1.5 billion fund per bookDated20 Jul 2026SourceAuthors Guild (on the court's final approval)
- Amount$3KAs statedapproximately $3,000 per work, by default split 50-50 between authors and…Dated8 Jan 2026SourceBartz v. Anthropic, court-approved long-form…
- Amount$3KAs stated$3,000/book for each Class work above 500,000Dated5 Sep 2025SourceBartz v. Anthropic, Class Action Settlement…
- Amount$2.5KAs stated$2,500 per title (author's share of the per-title fee, before the agent's 15%)Dated15 Apr 2025SourceJosh Bernoff, Why I took the $2,500 check to…
- Amount$674As stated£500 per title (author's cheque after the publisher's 50% cut, one-off)Dated24 Feb 2026SourceRichard Pinner, Uniliterate, Academic Publishing…
- Amount$340As stated$1,020, or $340 per book per title (author's royalty, one-time use)Dated3 Nov 2025SourceSlate, Arcadia Publishing: Your town's local…
- Amount$97As statedonly $97 per book (author's royalty)Dated10 Jun 2025SourceSlate (3 November 2025), citing Bloomberg,…
- AmountNot statedAs stated전자책 정가의 70%에 인쇄 부수 5부 (70% of the e-book list price, times 5 copies, times the…Dated24 Jul 2026SourceBizhankook, Woongjin loses AI copyright lawsuit…
- Per-title settlement Woongjin Booxen set with the publishers whose Bookopia e-books it used without…AmountNot statedAs stated전자책 정가의 70%의 3copy (70% of the e-book list price, times 3 copies)Dated13 Sep 2022SourceKyunghyang Shinmun, opinion column by culture…
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