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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I know one editor at a major house who reckoned manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution costs at about 10% of the budget of the average book his house published. That struck me as low, and a friend who is a writer and was talking to publishers instead of editors placed the figure at perhaps 20%.
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But again this seems be ignoring the cost of retail, at around 50% of the sale price. The agency agreement for eBooks has saved 20% here straight away.
This was what i didn't believe, that only 20% of the sale price of the book was related to production, distribution and retail.