One author sees one title
Their own. Not the imprint's other books, not the terms of anyone else on the list.
Terms differ by author and always have. An established novelist gets a different rate from a first book, which is ordinary trade and which no publisher will expose to their whole list.
Their own. Not the imprint's other books, not the terms of anyone else on the list.
What a chain pays a publisher is between those two, and authors are not party to it.
Aggregate performance across titles is the core of the business and does not become visible to any author.
We keep the infrastructure alive and are not a third party to any contract on it.
The useful thing is concrete: what your statement shows and what you wish it showed.