{"id":1598,"date":"2010-09-29T16:06:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T21:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:40","slug":"worth-noting-author-gets-4-20-print-book-vs-2-27-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/29\/worth-noting-author-gets-4-20-print-book-vs-2-27-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Noting:  Author gets $4.20 (print book) vs $2.27 (ebook)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1599\" href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1599\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/read-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/read-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/read-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/read.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The upshot: From an e-book sale, an author makes a little more than half what he or she makes from a hardcover sale.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new economics of the e-book make the author\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  quandary painfully clear: A new $28 hardcover book returns half, or $14,  to the publisher, and 15%, or $4.20, to the author. Under many e-book  deals currently, a digital book sells for $12.99, returning 70%, or  $9.09, to the publisher and typically 25% of that, or $2.27, to the  author.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/mobylives\/?p=18283\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upshot: From an e-book sale, an author makes a little more than half what he or she makes from a hardcover sale. The new economics of the e-book make the author\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quandary painfully clear: A new $28 hardcover book returns half, or $14, to the publisher, and 15%, or $4.20, to the author. Under &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/29\/worth-noting-author-gets-4-20-print-book-vs-2-27-ebook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worth Noting:  Author gets $4.20 (print book) vs $2.27 (ebook)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,162,161,163],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-author","tag-book","tag-ebook","tag-publisher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}