On Monday 23 July 2007, David Powers wrote: > Sancar Saran wrote: > > It was still ripping, They got 18 USD you got 2 USD. > > Out of that $18, the publisher has to pay the editor, copy editor, > technical reviewer, compositor, printer, etc, etc. Unless the book sells > several thousand copies, the publisher normally makes a loss. > > > I'm not > > sure author of Harry Potter acceps same condition. > > The Harry Potter books have sold an estimated 325 million copies. Even > if the author gets only 10 cents a book, that adds up to $32.5 million. > I'm sure she gets a lot more than 10 cents a book, but it's the number > of books sold that makes the real difference, not the amount per book. > Harry Potter also generates a lot of money through Hollywood movie > rights. It's hard to imagine the same with a book about PHP. ;-) So when does "Rasmus Lerdorf and the Deathly Hallows" open in theaters? :-) I'd so go see that opening weekend... -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
