The Authors Registry is a not-for-profit clearinghouse for payments to authors, receiving royalties from organizations and distributing them to U.S. authors. It was founded in 1995 by a consortium of U.S. authors' organizations: The Authors Guild, The American Society of Journalists & Authors, the Dramatists Guild, and the Association of Authors' Representatives.
The Authors Registry typically distributes around $2M to roughly 7,000 payees annually. To date, the Registry has distributed over $45M to authors of academic, nonfiction, fiction, children's, and every other category of literature.