Matt Broze wrote: > > Okay I went back and got my tax records so I could get this exactly right > and found out I have made more than I had guessed myself. Total paid to me > so far (royalties through 6/30/00) counting my $1000 share of the $4,000 > advance has been $4258.06. I didn't count how many books have been sold > overall but in the first year and one-half it was 5571 copies overall. I > think it must be a little over 10,000 copies now adding the two years since > them. I think having broken 10,000 copies we just got a raise so I just > started making about .60 per book (at best--1/2 that for those sold at more > than 57% discount--which a considerable number have been). Made about .50 > /book between 5000 and 10000 copies sold (if memory serves me) and about .41 > per book (at best) for the first 5000 sold. [snip] If this exchange is intended to warn potential book authors away from this lucrative (yeah, riiight!) endeavor, it's working! Have you computed the hours you put into "Deep Trouble?" Just wondering if you made minimum wage. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Oct 15 2000 - 02:23:38 PDT
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