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Originally Posted by wallcraft
What is known is that big publishers typically get 50% of the list price from retailers. This is for paper books and ebooks.
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Not quite.
The discount rate on paper books is between 40 and 60%. Big publishers offer 60%. That means the retailer pays 40% of the cover price to the distributor, who then pays a fraction of that to the publisher, and the publisher then pays a fraction to the author.
Smaller publishers have trouble getting books into retail outlets because the small publishers can't afford to take such a steep discount on a book.
And like Harry T said, no publisher is going to be willing to share their numbers.