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Originally Posted by koland
Sounds more like they spent $50 and hope to make it all up in one copy.
$5,000 would be a good investment, were it well priced, as it could easily sell not just hundreds of copies, but thousands, if priced correctly (sell a thousand and you can price it at $10 for the publisher to more than make the investment back; price it low enough and even a non-fiction title like this can sell hundreds a month, or at least each semester).
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Don't forget that the agency publisher is probably only getting about 30-40% of the cover price on an ebook (the rest goes to author and retailer), so it's going to take about 1500-2000 copies just to cover the costs of production, at $10 a copy. I don't know, do history professors include ebooks on their required reading lists yet? Back when I was in college a few decades ago, those professors tended to be technophobes. While it's probably an interesting read, I'm not sure that it would have enough of a draw with the general public to sell that many copies in a year.