Sancar Saran wrote:
Those publishers ripping the authors then they blame the pirates... Real steal was %95 of book prices....
No, the author gets 10% of what the publisher gets. If you look at prices on Amazon or other online bookstores, you'll see that 35-40% discount is common. So, a $40 book often sells for $26 or less. Delivery within the same country is frequently free, so that's a cost that gets deducted. Amazon also pays a commission to websites with affiliate links. So the publisher ends up with less than $20.
Publishing a book involves a lot of people: not just the author, but at least one technical reviewer, editor, copy editor, indexer, compositor (who lays out the pages), designer, and printer. Printed books also need to be transported and stored. The costs quickly mount up.
EBooks are cheaper to produce because there's no cost for printing or storage, but a professionally produced eBook still takes a huge amount of human effort. Unfortunately, an eBook is very easy for a pirate to rip off. The danger with piracy is that authors will be discouraged from writing, and in the end everyone will be worse off.
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