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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I'm also confused about the sum of money that she got. Her books from Random House are trade paperback and sell for $15. The hardback of her new book would be $30. She gets 25% per book, meaning $7.5, which means that the publisher would expect her to sell only 2500 books. That isn't much.
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Apparently that's pretty typical:
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Most debut literary story collections net approximately 2,000 hardcover copies. Most literary first novels net between 3,000 and 7,000 hardcover copies. Most commercial first novels net between 5,000 and 10,000 hardcover copies. Non-fiction is genre specific, so one would have to take into account whether one were dealing with relationships, parenting, dieting, health, business, history, memoir—or whatever the genre—before one could offer approximations. That said, netting at least 20,000 hardcovers in any genre will usually be enough to make any publisher pay serious attention to your next book.
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