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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
The "paper" costs for the publisher are only around 15% of the book's cost. So to make the same profits, they need to sell 2.85 times more books.
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I can't accept this. Let's take a $10 paperback that sells a million copies. If the book wholesales for $5 and the publisher makes $1 per copy then that equals $4,000,000 in costs to the publisher. If the "paper" costs are only 15% of the total cost ($600,000), that means that the publisher spent $3,400,000 on editing, artwork and marketing.
Does that seem reasonable? Not to me.