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No doubt 8192 Century Blox
Lee
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Jim
-- Jim Hawkins Lead SAPR/3 Oracle Database Administrator MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. 600 Pearl Drive St. Louis, MO 633376 9636) 474-7832 jhawkins_at_memc.com (work) jhawkins_at_primary.net (home)Received on Fri Jun 08 2001 - 10:02:52 CDT
> 10% of GROSS sales? or net? I'd be really really surprised if it were
> gross.
>
> Figure that net sales on that @29.95 book is at most half that.
>
> And 10,000 copies? Hm, well, I'd bet someone like Steven Feuerstein or
Kevin
> Loney would sell that many, but not most authors.
>
>
>
> >From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
> >Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> >Subject: Re: Re[2]: Serious Question (believe it or not)...
> >Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:55:22 -0800
> >
> >On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:56, schmoldt_at_fyiowa.com wrote:
> >
> > > I think all the original poster was asking was ballpark figures. ie;
> > > should a prospective author of an Oracle book expect to make around
> >$1,000,
> > > around $10,000, around $100,000, etc. No personal finances involved.
> >Your
> > > mileage may vary, etc.
> >
> >100K?!
> >
> >In your dreams. Standard royalty rate for O'Reilly is 10%, which is
> >public knowledge as they publish it on their web site.
> >
> >If you sell 10,000 copies of a 29.95 book ( assuming they all sell
> >for the list price, which isn't likely ) and no returns, you will
> >gross $30K from the book.
> >
> >10,000 copies is probably optimistic. And if there are co-authors,
> >you will split the proceeds.
> >
> >Writing a technical book is in most cases a labor of love.
> >
> >There are exceptions, like 'SQL for Smarties' by Joe Celko, but
> >not many tech books sell that well.
> >
> >Jared
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