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October 25, 2004
RE: The myth and truth of computer book publishing
I have a very small part in a new C# textbook coming up so I thought this was interesting.
Book publishing is one of the industries that the distribution and marketing of the goods (65% of the revenue) is much more expensive than the production of the goods (20% of the revenue). Even within the production part, the payment to the author's creative work is only 1/4 of "value" of the book. Bad news for authors. The upside is that means the production is not about to be outsourced anytime soon. :)
[Via Michael Yuan Java blog]
Posted by mikel at October 25, 2004 11:38 AM
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