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Originally Posted by BVLarson
Hey, Hamster Rage, great details there. As an author, I can tell you how much you get: My Print books give about 7 to 15% (depends on how big you are) of the cover price. So most authors get about 50 cents from each book they sell in paperback. In Ebooks, the rates are better, Big print authors get 25% of the ebook cover price, so about 2.50 on a normal book. Indies like me get 70% of books over $3 (at least from Amazon) and that is about $2 on a $3 book. Not bad, really. Ebooks cut out hordes of middle-men, but you have to do your own cover and editing.
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Holy guacamole! My $3.50 on a $5.00 ebook was bang on!
I figure that a good editor probably costs about $1500 a week, but then I'm stuck since I don't know how long it takes to edit a book. My guess is that you can get a cover designed for $500 or so.
I'm trying to think of what book marketing & advertising I've actually seen. Ads in the books section of the paper sometimes, but most of it has to be in the bookstores themselves. New releases at the front of the store and stuff like that. I'm sure the publishers pay for that placement but I don't know how it translates to on-line stores.