{"id":886,"date":"2006-04-27T09:06:49","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T16:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/04\/the_math_of_book_profits_or_lo\/"},"modified":"2006-04-27T09:06:49","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T16:06:49","slug":"the_math_of_book_profits_or_lo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_math_of_book_profits_or_lo.php","title":{"rendered":"The math of book profits (or loss)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blogger on LiveJournal offers <a href=\"http:\/\/alg.livejournal.com\/84032.html\">an inside view<\/a> of how mass-market books earn or lose money. It&#8217;s a fun little fictional case-in-point that lets you learn industry terms like &#8221;laydown,&#8221; &#8221;incremental coop,&#8221; and &#8221;PPB&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alg.livejournal.com\/84032.html\">Give it a read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and since it&#8217;s &#8221;take your child to work day so they can realize how much sitting you do,&#8221; here&#8217;s a message from my nine-year-old son, Sam. His first-ever blog entry (drum roll please):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nHello world! My dad&#8217;s desk is a mess.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, Sam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blogger on LiveJournal offers an inside view of how mass-market books earn or lose money. It&#8217;s a fun little fictional case-in-point that lets you learn industry terms like &#8221;laydown,&#8221; &#8221;incremental coop,&#8221; and &#8221;PPB&#8221; along the way. As in all creative industries, most potential earnings are chipped away along the supply chain, leaving little chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}