Re: Thanks and another book request

From: Eric D. Pierce <PierceED_at_csus.edu>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:56:18 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002A9BDA.20010202162524@fatcity.com>

are there some envious little weenies out there, or what? :)

my mom (retired writer/politician & amateur horticulturalist) and dad (retired pilot/engineer & amateur photographer) wrote a pocket guide book to speciality gardens & arboretums in northern california, and it cost them about $10,000 in production expenses (travel, photography equipment/supplies, and so forth). They made that back and about another $10,000 of profit (I think that represented either 2 or 3 printings total). aprx 6 months of work.

regards,
ep

On 2 Feb 2001, at 13:10, Pat Hildebrand wrote:

Date sent:              Fri, 02 Feb 2001 13:10:08 -0800
To:                     Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>



> > 

> > The very fact that you often repeat this in response to mails that refer to

> > your books, makes us think otherwise $$$
> >
>
> I have not written any Oracle books but I have had enough experience
> with publishers that I really have to step in here. My husband
> happened to be one of three authors on a monograph that had enough
> popularity to stick around for quite awhile now. Want to guess his
> share of the yearly royalties (split equally between the three of
> them)? Approximately $100. Okay over twenty years that's a couple
> thousand. He repeatly said that the only reason to write a book was
> because you got mad at what was available; it certainly wasn't for the
> money.

...

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