Originally posted by Tonny Tssagovic:
Do they get, say 20% of the books price for each book sold?
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Originally posted by Joe Pluta:
Virtually no-one gets rich doing it.
Well, Bert and Kathy do, but they're actually highly advanced author-bots from the future stranded in our timespace continuum and trying to advance Earth's technology enough so they can rebuild their dimensional transport device and get home.
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Originally posted by Tonny Tssagovic:
... what is the minimum of books that the publisher is willing to publish.. assuming that I want to write a book about a very specific technology that interests only few people, will they just go for it?
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I was fortunate enough to have cashed the check before they went bankrupt. My understanding was it was too much inventory and not enough sales. I don't think Wrox was ever very profitable but with the dotcom crash they got caught with too many books they couldn't sell.Originally posted by Steven Broadbent:
There never was a full explanation. Tho' I did see comments by authors Jacqui Barber and Tom Kyte about their premature demise.
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Originally posted by Jeff Langr:
From what I've heard, most technology publishers are happy if they make back the advance (a few thousand dollars) on a book.
The royalty percentages vary based on who you are and what you've done, but the 5%-7% figure is a good one. A few bucks a book, perhaps. An average computer book sells 10,000 copies; 25,000 and up is considered a best-seller. Doing the math, you can figure that some people (the certification guys at 100,000 copies) are doing quite well. For the less talented like myself, it's a nice bit of money, but not enough to live on.
-Jeff-
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