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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 2224918" data-attributes="member: 725">Let's say that you could guarentee a 1000 sales (you can't, but let's say what if). FFG like the 64 pages book for $15, 1000 x $15 = $15,000.But they sell those 1000 books to a distributer, and selling to the distributer only nets you 40% of retail, $15,000 x 40% = $6,000.Let's assume that printing costs would cost 10% of retail, $15,000 x 10% = $1,500, $6,000 - $1,500 = $4,500.That leaves $4,500 for designing, writing, editing, illustrating, layingout, warehouse/shipping costs, etc. Decent art (interior/exterior) would set you back around $1,500. Writing/editing $1,500 if you paid 2 cent/word for design/writing and 1 cent/word for editing (which i thing is very low indeed). Then you still need someone to do layout and you still have warehouse/shipping costs. That's a lot of work for very little return, and a 1000 sales aren't even guaranteed...</blockquote>