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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Just because a book sells more copies doesn't necessarily mean it will make more money. How much money a book will make depends on profit margin times sales. A book with a low profit margin has to sell a lot more books than a book with a higher profit margin.
Generally speaking, you are correct, however.
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Yes, you are right, I was being sloppy.
Put more precisely:
A bestselling hardback would be expected to have a higher proportion of publisher profits generated by the hardback edition compared to others editions than books in general. (Many (most?) of which never even have hardback editions.) That does not in any way provide evidence for the OP's claim that hardbacks make much more money for publishers generally than paperbacks do.