The costs of publishing a book

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By Paul Biba

Amazon Kindle Review has a long – much to long to excerpt – post on the actual costs of publishing a book. This is the most comprehensive study I’ve seen so far. It covers: creating the raw book; book screening and acquisition; successful books subsidizing failures; finishing the book; printing; distribution; retailing; marketing; returns.

The controversy over Kindle Edition book prices brings up the question of what physical books actually cost and what elements ought to be improved and/or eliminated when it comes to Kindle Editions.

In particular -

1. We really need a listing of the costs involved in producing and selling a physical book. This post covers that.
2. It would also be good to know what creating, distributing and selling Kindle Edition books costs, and how these costs interact/overlap/stack with the costs of producing a physical book. That’s something we’ll look at soon (although not in this post).

I suggest you take a look.

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