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Originally Posted by Boyodublin
Let's start a movement on MobileRead to insist that all e books be priced at a $5 flat rate. I'm sure sales would rocket and the new ebook technology soar!
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According to a post on this URL:
http://answers.google.com/answers/th.../id/50620.html
The average sales for a new book is 2,000 copies. Large trade sales are between 5,000 and 10,000 copies. Of course, J.K. Rowling, Dan Brown, and others blow these numbers out of the water.
So, let's say a book sales 5,000 and a writer can write one book per year. How much should the writer make per year? Let's say $30,000. Then the author alone needs to make $6 per book. Ok, we'll write two books per year, and they still need make $3 per book. On top of that figure we add the costs and profits for the editor, the distribution channel (e.g., Amazon), marketing, and miscellaneous costs.
The problem is that the sales volume isn't 100,000 versus 1,000,000. It's 2,000 versus 10,000.