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A Publisher’s Confession

by Walter Hines Page

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Published without a name, this is a working publisher on the trade’s real arithmetic: what a book actually costs, why large royalties ruin both sides, how much of an edition never sells, the uses and limits of advertising a book, and the gap between the earnings the press reports and the cheques authors receive.

Publishing’s economics, admitted in public for once. Download the free EPUB.

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