Thanks for adding the detailed breakdown. I was concentrating on my side of the deal so I probably misremembered their side. > Almost everybody I know who has

Thanks for adding the detailed breakdown. I was concentrating on my side of the deal so I probably misremembered their side. > Almost everybody I know who has gone the self-publishing route has ended up with the high-hundreds and single-digit-thousands. A technical book should be selling for about $50, more if you bundle correctly like the Rails Tutorial (https://www.railstutorial.org/ https://www.railstutorial.org/). 1'000 copies sold is income of about $40K (accounting for processing fees) if you self publish and don't bundle. About $100K if you bundle and have an average sale price of ~$100. I was told a typical advance is ~$5K. To earn that you'd need sales of just over 100 copies, which seems very achievable.