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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: OT - Wrap-up of 'Serious Question (believe it or not)...'
mmmmmmmm. Guiness....
At 08:30 AM 6/8/01 -0800, you wrote:
>That's perfect! Bartender...another Guiness for Lee, please.
>
>> No doubt 8192 Century Blox
>>
>> Lee
>>
>>
>> >Virtual Guiness Stout to all on the list, compliments of my new film
>> >company.
>>
>> Jim
>>
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>> > 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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