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Joe: And despite all this, legacy publishers don’t realize a revolution is afoot. Barry: I think they’re aware of it, but in an abstract way. I talk to a lot of people in the business, and when most of them talk about digital and the changes it’s causing in the industry, you can tell they’re imagining a future that’s safely abstract and far off. So

Opt-Intelligence

Large houses almost always base their volume royalty rates on the retail price; smaller houses frequently base it on the net money received by the publisher. This applies to royalty rates on export sales as well.

They’ll take a one-book indie publisher and provide a full suite of services: printing, calling on all the bookstores, and fulfillment of print and digital content around the world. So Ingram is positioned to keep growing as the industry changes. As Amazon attracts more and more indie authors and publishers, Ingram becomes their path to the half of

Book manufacturing expense remains the single biggest line item in the trade publisher’s P&L, accounting for between 20 percent and 25 percent of costs when plant costs; paper, printing, and binding (PP&B); and inventory write-downs (the cost of books that are manufactured but not sold) are added up.

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