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Originally Posted by pwalker8
But the $50,000 per title overhead is just that, a per title overhead, not a per book printed overhead. It represents the back office expense of keeping the doors open, not the actual expense of printing a specific number of books. You have the same overhead if you print 25,000 or 4,000. It pays for all the back office expenses require to run a large company.
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Yes, overhead expenses are fixed. No, they are not $50,000 per title.
From the article: "At several publishing houses, they have a standard “overhead” charge of about $2 per book, or $50,000 per title."
The author of the article has the overhead right ("about $2 per book") but has then confused matters by adding "or $50,000 per title" without specifying whether that's a minimum or a maximim.
It clearly can't be a minimum. No publishing house could survive with a minimum overhead of $50,000 per title. It must be intended either as a maximum, or as the number from the example that follows.