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There are companies like Hyperink www.hyperink.com who will partner with experts and help them publish (and write) the book in return for a revenue split. I thi
by asdf333 15y ago
There are companies like Hyperink www.hyperink.com who will partner with experts and help them publish (and write) the book in return for a revenue split. I think its a great place for people who have some expertise to contribute, but don't necessarily want to deal w/ all the hassles of self-publishing and promoting.
- cstross 15y agoThat is a weirdly accurate description of how Traditional Publishing works. Believe it or not, a typical trad publisher's profit after handling production and distribution overheads for a typical midlist book is roughly the same as the author's. Because publishing books is not, in fact, terribly profitable, because with vanishingly few exceptions most books have on the order of a few thousands to tens of thousands of consumers. (Traditionally the way publishers got large was to publish lots of stuff, and be prepared to follow through on the one in a hundred or one in a thousand titles that broke big.)