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Originally Posted by elcreative
Same for uni books... spend ten years producing a study book that's going to sell a few hundred copies and I'm supposed to sell for $30... say I sell 300 copies... wow that's $9000 for a work I've taken ten years to complete... you're all so generous...
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300 books? What course would this be, I wonder? And ten years to produce it? Maybe you'd spend a few years on a a textbook if it's the first one ever produced, but the vast majority of textbooks are cobbled together much, much faster than the average novel - because 95% of the content of the current 39th edition hasn't changed since the 3rd edition was released. You just need some new and shinier pictures, a few updated facts and figures and hey presto, a brand new book is born.
Sadly I had yet to fully realise this when I went to university myself and spent several hundred £££ more than I needed to.