Re: Re[2]: Serious Question (believe it or not)...

On Friday 08 June 2001 08:00, Rachel Carmichael wrote:
> 10% of GROSS sales? or net? I'd be really really surprised if it were
> gross.

Net.

>
> Figure that net sales on that @29.95 book is at most half that.

Yeah, I found that out.

>
> And 10,000 copies? Hm, well, I'd bet someone like Steven Feuerstein or
> Kevin Loney would sell that many, but not most authors.

I was being wildly optimistic. Someone wanted to know if you could make 100K from a tech book. Even with my wild optimism, it would be 30k, more like 15k if when you correct from gross to net.

Jared

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