RE: OT: Apress ebooks $10 starting Friday

From: Ahmed Aangour <ahmed.aangour_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 09:10:29 +0100
Message-ID: <CAPK9FYGbtkcqTn90_GiyvnEipKwMpqGjyOWiQp2vDrgrZyOg-g_at_mail.gmail.com>

I confirm: all the book are at 10$ today on apress website Le 26 nov. 2015 06:41, "Iggy Fernandez" <iggy_fernandez_at_hotmail.com> a écrit :

> re: I wonder how the authors earn royalty on their books
>
> Royalties are typically 10% of the publisher's revenue.
>
> Assume that the Amazon list price is $40.
>
> Assume that the publisher's revenue is $20 of that. (The rest is Amazon's
> revenue, not the publisher's revenue)
>
> The author gets $2 per book.
>
> A modestly successful book can expect to sell about 3000 copies over the
> five-year useful life of the book.
>
> Therefore a modestly successful book will generate about $6000 in
> royalties over the five-year useful life of the book. Assume a minimum of
> 500 hours to write the book. That works out to $12 per hour, paid out over
> a five year period.
>
> It is not uncommon to have two or three authors, so the royalty will have
> to be shared.
>
> Less successful books will sell far fewer copies.
>
> The royalty on a $10 ebook will be $1.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> From: Hemant-K.Chitale_at_sc.com
> To: iggy_fernandez_at_hotmail.com
> CC: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: RE: OT: Apress ebooks $10 starting Friday
> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 03:45:40 +0000
>
> I wonder how the authors earn royalty on their books.
>
>
>
> Hemant K Chitale
>

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