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Originally Posted by karunaji
As the material costs comprise only 10% of the total price, the real question would be to ask how many human work hours are spent for producing each book sold and how many hours you have to work to buy it.
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No, how many hours went into the entire production run, vs how many *all* the buyers have to work to buy *all* the copies.
Talking about the author's hundreds or thousands of hours of work would only be relevant if the author were selling a single copy. Ditto, advances, editing costs, and advertising.
Some costs are per-title (like author advances); some are per-unit (like printing), and some of the per-unit costs vary widely depending on how many units. (It's cheaper per book to print 10,000 than to print 50 copies).