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Old 06-19-2007, 06:59 PM   #84
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Originally Posted by athlonkmf View Post
according to what I've read in several newspapers concerning costs of schoolbooks, 50%-75% is actually pure profit for the author, distributor, etc.
Publisher & and distributer I'd believe, but I'm a bit skeptical that the author gets all that much on a per book basis .... Then again, textbooks are a different animal, since the potential authors are a fairly select group of people, so maybe that's closer to right than I think it is.
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