I'm living in a country where people do not afford to buy real books. Most people earn $250~$400 per month. $50 for a book is too damn expensive. In addition, since US has restricted business with us, no body ships books to us. And we don't have Credit Card, since Master Card, Visa, Paypal do not offer services to us. How can we read books in such a country? I would like to know your opinions. Thank you. On 7/22/07, Chris Shiflett <shiflett@xxxxxxx> wrote:
David Powers wrote: > I suspect that your estimate of the advances paid by Apress/friends of > Ed is inflated. Royalties are no secret: Apress publishes its standard > contract on the web for prospective authors to see. The basic rate is > 10% of the net income received by the publisher. Since heavy discounting > is prevalent in the publishing industry, this means the author ends up > with less than 5% of the book's cover price. So on a book with a cover > price of $40, the author gets less than $2. Based on the fact that this is almost identical to every other publisher (O'Reilly, Sams, etc.), and based on the fact that Richard said he has a lot of experience in this industry, I suspect his estimate was spot on. You're right, though, it's difficult to get any return on your time investment. :-) Chris -- Chris Shiflett http://shiflett.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
