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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
See Charlie Stross's blog post referenced earlier in the thread about some of the steps in the process before a book reaches the stage of actual publication...
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Which we've already established says it only costs about $8,000 - $20,000 in total. I would assume $8,000 is what would be invested in books expected to have low sales. Unless they have fewer than 8,000 sales, it would be less than $1/book. If only 4,000 sales, it's still only $2/book.
For the books expected to sell well, they could invest up to $20,000. I assume most of those books would certainly sell more than 20,000 copies, which means less than $1/book.
And yet these books are selling for >$10/book. Clearly those preparation costs are not the bulk of the costs to produce the books.