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Originally Posted by Jack Tingle
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Actually, all that proves is that per dollar of book, the publisher's books made (roughly) 27 cents and the self published made 35 cents, but it should also be noted that the different price points may have skewed the answer.
Without knowing a lot more details about the books and the customers, all you can say is that the extra effort for self publishing _might_ have paid back at this volume of sales. Eight extra cents, over the four self-published books ($400 each), might have paid back the extra work the author did. I doubt it represents a net profit to him. He'd have to do no more than 8 hours of work on each volume to ready it for publication.
Publishers often earn their money. The problem comes when their greed exceeds their marginal utility, and they try to use the law as a bludgeon to make people dance to _their_ tune.
Regards,
Jack Tingle
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But you don't carry it out, sir. This is for one year's earnings. The cost to convert to an e-book is a one-time only charge. Therefore it should be amortized over the entire sales of the e-book, for the entire length of the e-book copyright. Or look at it another way, it costs X dollars in time, labor, or money (for somebody else) to convert the book to an e-book. Like a publisher's advance, the writer needs to "earn out" that cost, then the rest becomes his profit thereafter....
(And like I-Tunes, price it cheap and nobody's going to waste their time pirating.....)