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Originally Posted by GhostHawk
Elfwreck, granted, turning an existing paper book into an Ebook will have some costs involved. How much is partially dependent on how many copies it gets spread over.
Spreading 2 -5,000$ over 100,000 copies gets the cost per copy down pretty low.
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If you are an author or a publisher, you
wish you have actual sales of 100,000 copies of a book. That puts you in bestseller territory, and you break out the champagne.
For books by new authors and midlist titles, assume 5,000 - 10,000 copies is more realistic. What do your costs look like spread over
that base?
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The fact remains from what I see the vast majority of the cost of a new E-book is not the Authors Royalties. Its publishing houses, middlemen, and the big distributors.
And while I don't mind seeing an author I love get their share, I don't see why I should make anyone else rich.
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And if you take the publishers, distributors, and retailers out of the picture, just how does the author you love sell books?
Sure, an author can write books, do their own ebook conversions, and offer their work for sale over their own website. MR's Steve Jordan does just that.
But for Steve, it's at best a part time occupation. He has a day job, and the money he makes from selling his books doesn't do a lot more than cover his costs. He's highly unlikely to make a
living as a freelance writer of fiction going the self-published route.
If you're an author, your biggest problem is simply letting the audience that might want to buy your books know you exist, and having a means to sell to them. That service is what publishers, middlemen, and distributors provide.
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Dennis