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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
You still have all the costs of writing, editing, layouts, legal, research, marketing, overhead, taxes and retail cut. The only cost you lose is the paper. Generally speaking that's around 15% of the total costs, though it's entirely plausible that the costs are higher for low-volume titles like textbooks. Perhaps 20% or even 25%, but probably not much more.
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I've asked before, but you ignored the request. Where are you getting these percentages from? How do they correlate to different sized print runs? If it's something like a blog, what is the rationale for believing it over any other loud voice in the room? And since this is a thread about textbooks, how about a nice study detailing the cost breakdown of Textbooks?
Numbers should not be thrown around like they're facts without at least
some statistical background in the form of a citation.