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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 5115159" data-attributes="member: 1288">Canis, not to pick on you, but you have two facts very wrong in your assertions. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />No, they don't.It comes as a surprise to a lot of people--myself included when I first began looking into this--but printing and shipping make up a fairly small portion of the price. Obviously, it varies based on the company, the print size, distribution deals, printing locations, etc. But based on my research after the recent Amazon/Macmillan kerfuffle, the general accepted range in publishing (or at least fiction publishing) these days is between 3% and 10% of total costs.That's not a typo. Three-to-ten percent.Warehousing adds a bit, but not very much. And often, warehousing costs are assumed by the vendors (i.e. Amazon) as much as, or more than, the publisher.While the precise details depend on the contract, and yes, where the numbers should fall is a major point of contention between authors and publishers. But authors do tend to make higher royalties on e-books than hardcopies. Maybe not enough more, and maybe not always if they have an old or poorly vetted contract. But on average.</blockquote>