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Originally Posted by NatCh
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.  |
Textbook authors get next to nothing, at least for college textbooks. Grade school textbooks are usually written by committee anyway. The publisher makes pretty good money, I think. (And the textbooks are pretty lousy, if the ones my kids have are a reasonable sample.)