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Originally Posted by MaggieScratch
Any editors out there who want to weigh in knowledgeably on the numbers?
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Charles Stross (cstross) posted some info earlier about costs. I know he's an author and not an editor, but he's been very involved in ebooks and I would guess has made it his business to have fairly accurate info.
Here's part of an earlier post he made...
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It is worth noting at this point that the cost of paper-and-ink contributes maybe 10% of the cover price of a novel. Another 10% goes to the author (plus or minus), about 10% goes to the publisher in profits, and 70% is gobbled up by the wholesale and retail supply chain.
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Ebooks still have a distribution system using companies like LightningSource that gobble up some of the money, just like a distro does for pbooks.