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Originally Posted by Hellmark
While the publishers do a valuable service for the author, why should they take so big a piece of the profits, especially when it comes to the digital versions?
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Because that is what the contract says. How big is negotiable but it sets the final price. Typically a retailer gets about 50% which is what they discount off of for sales etc. From the rest there are the publishers profit, the editors salary, the Authors take, the production costs, the advertising and promotion costs, overhead costs, etc. Actually printing of a book is generally less than $1 in quantity. A eBook is not really free to the publisher since many of the costs are the same and eBooks have special costs that are not in books, such as DRM, servers, conversion costs for multiple formats, computer maintenance, IT, software and upgrades.
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