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Originally Posted by Daithi
Another way of looking at it is that 20,000 books with a cover price of $28 were sold for a total of $560,000, and the author received $50,000 or 8.9%. While it is true that the author didn't earn back his advance, it is patently false that the publisher lost money on this book.
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So you think that the publisher makes the full value of the list price per book? and you also think that if 20,000 copies are sold they only printed 20,000 copies int he first place?
The publisher will only make $14 per book at most. Plus if they sold 20,000 copies they probably printed 40,000 or more. You can't say the cost of delivering the book to the store shelf is irrelevant to whether the author earned the advance- the advance ois part of those costs.
If the book in your scenario made $560,000 in retail sales but it cost $560,001 to put that book on the shelves than it lost money and it didn't earn back the authors advance.