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well, if you haven’t earned out your advance, and you encourage people to pirate, you’ll never earn out your advance. i don’t recall exactly offhand, but our ne
by Finnucane 2y ago
well, if you haven’t earned out your advance, and you encourage people to pirate, you’ll never earn out your advance. i don’t recall exactly offhand, but our net on an Amazon ebook sale is about 70% of list.
- InsideOutSanta 2y agoI'll never earn out my advance on Amazon sales, period. The 70% royalty is only available to books below $10, and also incurs other costs from Amazon. Which makes the calculation even worse, because now you're forced to sell at a lower cost, and you pay additional flat fees to Amazon for each sale. In your case, if you sell the book for $10, you get about $6 ($7 minus fees), of which you get 25%, so you also only end up with about $1.50 per sale.
- Finnucane 2y agoi think you need to find a better publisher.
- InsideOutSanta 2y agoIt doesn't matter who the publisher is. I've shown the calculations for Amazon's take. I've pointed out how many copies reasonably successful tech books sell. The numbers don't work.