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From other tech book authors it seems it's the former; they work many hours for a year and then they make 20k or that kind of minimum wage money
by lazyant 12y ago
From other tech book authors it seems it's the former; they work many hours for a year and then they make 20k or that kind of minimum wage money
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- julian_t 12y agoThat's right. I wrote some computer books some years back, and the royalties were somewhere around 10% of the wholesale cost of the book. So a book with a $40 shelf price might have a $20 wholesale price... and with only about 6000 copies as a typical print run, I didn't make much at all. And also bear in mind that an advance is just that: it comes off the royalties, so you may not end up making any money for quite a while.
- jarcane 12y agoThat's a good point. With a run like that, the advance may be all you ever see.