It’s possible that author is bad at basic arithmetic and doesn’t understand that 40% of $0 is $0. It’s interesting to me how many people lack basic financial c

It’s possible that author is bad at basic arithmetic and doesn’t understand that 40% of $0 is $0. It’s interesting to me how many people lack basic financial critical thinking skills and even something super basic like profit isn’t intuitive to all (but it should). So if I see a $5 income one month and a $-1 income next month because the two people returned their book, I get angry instead of trying to understand why. In the old paper publishing world it took a long time for this accounting so it wasn’t as easy to see the returns. I remember a friend who worked at a bookstore and they would tear the cover off books and send the cover back as a return. The return would be credited against the store account and not count towards author royalties.