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Originally Posted by calvin-c
Now that is simply wrong. When you pay for a book, paper or otherwise, 80% (or more) of what you pay goes to pay for the cost of preparing the book.
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That is simply correct, according to Eric Flint at Baen Books. That's where I got my information. Eric did a series of publishing/eBook articles in Baen Universe.
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Originally Posted by calvin-c
IIRC someone on this forum said that the actual printing cost (paper, ink, distribution, warehousing, etc) of a hypothetical 10,000 copy print run is about $.65/copy. This actually seems low, to me, but don't think the cost of printing the book, as opposed to preparing it for publication, is more than $1/copy-based, of course on at least 10,000 copies.
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That someone didn't know what he was talking about. It's more like for every copy sold, the author GETS $0.65.
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Originally Posted by calvin-c
The cost of preparing the book (including editing, proofreading, royalties, advertising/promotion, etc.) are the same whether it's published as a pbook or as an ebook.
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And since you only need to do all that ONCE per book, the costs of doing that are spread over all copies sold, making those costs very small - per book.