Who should i start in week 15 semi finals?-?
Togh Choice, i would go Julio Jones, he is a big play guy, and the Giants gave up a lot of huge receptions to the saints last week
Week 15 WR/TE help!?!?
I need some WR2 help as well as some TE suggestions... I have A. Boldin in my WR1 slot and need to choose a WR2: D. Bowe(KC) K. Britt(TEN) T.J. Housh.(SEA) B. Berrian(MIN) K. Walter(HOU) Also I have G. Olsen(CHI) and T. Heap(BAL)...Ben Watson(NE) is available to pick up... Any ideas?
How much money does an author make from a best-selling book?
It depends upon what you mean by "bestselling." And I only know US publishing.Some books are called bestselling when they hit top ten rank in an Amazon sub-sub-category. Others are called that after months in a row on a NYT list. For traditionally published authors: If I recall correctly, and very roughly, the PW "The Red and the Black" series (once per year for many years), used to show that the top dozen books per year sell more than a million copies. The next hundred or so are between 100,000 copies and a million. Most of them seemed to sell most of their copies as mass market paperbacks, with another 1/4 as hardbacks. Let's run some numbers. A mass-selling hb probably has a list price of $22. Most of the royalties will be in the "after 10,000 copies are sold" level, so they get 15% of list price per copy sold. That's $3.3 per copy, or $330,000 per 100,000 copies sold. For a mass market paperback, most of the royalties will be in the 10% level, and the price will be maybe $7.99 per copy, or $0.79 per sale in royalties. That makes it $79,000 per 100,000 copies sold. Combine the two, and you're looking at an "average" of about $140,000 per 100,000. Some bestselling authors actually get more per copy, because their publishers deliberately overpay on the advance. They do this so that they can pay more money without setting a precedent on royalty rates for other authors. Self-publishing authors rarely sell many copies in paper (maybe 1 or 2% of their total), even if they're top-selling overall on Amazon. So we'll ignore that side. They're making most of their money on ebooks, and mostly on Amazon. They sell as well as bestselling traditionally published authors -- on Amazon. But they don't generally take the risks required in order to sell many copies in the other outlets that traditional publishers exploit. Traditionally published bestselling authors get about 1/3 of their sales on Amazon, and as ebooks. Using that, and the PW numbers, we come out that a handful of bestselling self-published authors will hit 300,000 copies per year, per title. Maybe a hundred of the rest will hit 30,000. They're usually publishing their books at about $4.99 per copy. And they get 70% of that, or $3.50. From this they pay any costs that they have, but let's ignore that side. They're getting about $1o5,000 per 30,000 copies. That's somewhere in the same range as the traditionally published author for the same level of prominence. Does that help?