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Originally Posted by pwalker8
$50,000 per title as the assigned overhead is a figure that I've read multiple places. The overhead is neither a minimum or maximum, but a fixed cost. In theory it comes from adding up the fixed expenses of the publishing house, divided by the number of titles they publish in a year. It's for things like office space, staff salary, and any number of things that are not for a specific title.
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I accept of course that you have seen this particular figure bandied about, though I personally don't recall having come across it. I suspect that if a publisher assigned this as a fixed internal charge per book it has little if any basis in actual costs.