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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I used a range of $2-5 dollars. I used $2 as the worst case senario for the publisher. Let's use a $2.99 price point at Amazon. $2 goes to the author/publisher, Amazon gets the $.99. Split the $2 50/50 and how many books sales does it take to pay out the costs to product the e-book? My estimate is 300-500 sales. Anything above that becomes pure profit. No marketing costs, no production costs, 1 cent a year (being generous) for storage.
But that would potential take demand away from your bestsellers (at $15-20 for the same cost structure...)
Sorry, I don't buy it. Or else those niche marketers would have died years ago...
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You kind of ignored all the other considerations I pointed out, including trying to assess demand, renegotiation of contracts, etc. Its a lot more complex than your Underpants Gnomes theory of putting out the back-list.
(You put out the back-list book
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Profit!)