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The math of book profits (or loss)
Posted: April 27, 2006
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A blogger on LiveJournal offers an inside view of how mass-market books earn or lose money. It's a fun little fictional case-in-point that lets you learn industry terms like ''laydown,'' ''incremental coop,'' and ''PPB'' along the way. As in all creative industries, most potential earnings are chipped away along the supply chain, leaving little chance of profitability for the artist or the publisher.
Oh, and since it's ''take your child to work day so they can realize how much sitting you do,'' here's a message from my nine-year-old son, Sam. His first-ever blog entry (drum roll please):
Hello world! My dad's desk is a mess.
Thanks, Sam.