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fjtorres · 01-01-2015, 05:26 PM

The big boys are generally profitable, overall.
About 11% margin worth of profits.
(Smaller publishers... it varies. Which is why the big boys keep finding acquisition targets.)

http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014...actually-make/

On the other hand, if you look at their profits, most of it comes from ebooks, which account for 20%-plus of their revenues.

http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014...big-publisher/

Depending on how you interpret the public data you could make a case that pbook publishing is a money loser.

01-01-2015, 05:26 PM	#8
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	The big boys are generally profitable, overall. About 11% margin worth of profits. (Smaller publishers... it varies. Which is why the big boys keep finding acquisition targets.) http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014...actually-make/ On the other hand, if you look at their profits, most of it comes from ebooks, which account for 20%-plus of their revenues. http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014...big-publisher/ Depending on how you interpret the public data you could make a case that pbook publishing is a money loser. Last edited by fjtorres; 01-01-2015 at 05:37 PM.