P&Ls and how books make (or don't) money

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Profit & Loss/Profitability & Liability: How Books Make (or Don't Make!) Money

A basic outline of what happens when an editor buys a book and wants to publish it. This is very much a basic look at publishing and publishing finance, with some explanation of terms commonly used by the marketing and sales departments.

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[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

Unlike every other writer in the world, I love math, so I was practically drooling here.

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Former Nuclear Mechanic.
Was doing Reimannian geometry in linear sets senior year in high school.
Wanna duel? :P
(Since you are from Murfreesboro, and I used to live on the corner of Shelby/Tipton Co... I'll let you slide on account that we were 'neighbors' once.)

-=Jeff=-