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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
And what's getting counted in "cost" before printing? I have a feeling that the author's advance is getting counted in that, and that it's a big part of it.
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Proper editing, typesetting, proofreading & formatting will get you at between 20 and 30k US$. Then there's the costs for fancy cover + other marketing and publisher overhead. I'd estimate 50k US$ not excessive before a single copy is printed and the author has seen a dime.
One of the pros for eBooks I have not seen mentioned in the handful of posts I have skimmed through in this thread is the much longer shelf time. That's also one of the cons ... once an eBook is out there it will be forever competing for the customers interest. Dead-tree books have a limited shelf time -- between weeks and months.