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My novel is available POD through Amazon's self-pub portal, Createspace, as not everyone I know has an ebook reader. So far, all my sales have been to myself. It costs me about $4.60 per book, plus the $39 'Pro' fee to get it down to that level. The break-even on printing costs I figure at 11 books, and I'll probably give away or sell that many to friends and acquaintances.
The book retails for $6.50 on Amazon, of which I get 5 cents. Amazon gets the printing costs *plus* 40% of the list price (which includes the printing costs, so they get 140% of the printing costs, oy).
I get way more from the 99 cent ebook than from the paperback.
It is a nice looking book, though. Everyone who's seen it is surprised, so I can't complain about the quality.
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