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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Re: Strange

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if the same definition of "paperback" applies for my books. They have paper covers, but are priced more like a hardback would be. So far as I'm aware, they never get end up in a significantly cheaper edition, not in the US anyway. I'm told that a couple of my book have been printed in pulp editions in countries where that's the norm.

Re: Strange

[ryanlrussell.livejournal.com]

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