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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8360037" data-attributes="member: 59816">It works like this: I pay $27.50 USD (45% off) on a D&D Book from my distributor and sell them for $50. (Actually I am Canadian, but we'll keep it in USD to make it easier - we also lose out on the exchange rate some of the time, but that's another story). Let's say I sell 20 of them in their first year (not a core book, but that's about right on something like Decent into Avernus). I make... $450! (Less whatever I paid my Clerk to sell them, and less because I probably brought in at least 22 copies if I sold 20, but you follow me...)Meanwhile, Amazon sells 'em for, what, $37? (Depends on the book, the PHB goes for $32 but "rarer" books can go as high as $40). Let's say $37. They probably pay somewhere around $20 per. But they sell 100k of them! (I don't know how accurate that is, but let's go with it...) They make $1.7 Million!On top of all that, I probably pay my employees 1.5x as much as Bezos does his. And mine probably spent more time doing it, too.</blockquote>