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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Usually that reason is because the book only needs to pay the author, not a whole army of hangers on. Writers typically only get about 10-20% of the proceeds of a professionally published book, so a self published book at $1.99 would need to be priced at $9.99 or more in order to generate the same income for the writer.
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Except that takes into account the cost to actually print, ship, and store a large number of physical books.
Take that out of the equation, and the author's precentage of the selling price, should be higher.
And remember, most books sell at a discount after a few short period of time, so you can't base it on the original selling price.