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Question by Raging Hillbilly:

How do bookstores and book publishers actually make money?

When I walk through a bookstore, I see the hundreds and hundreds (or thousands!) of different books by different authors, most of which are not highly known and not likely to be a bestseller either.

I always wonder, how the heck do these bookstores and publishers (and authors!) make any money off of most of the books?

I would think that printing all these books that won't sell many copies would cost more than they actually get in return?

Or do the small number of books that end up being bestsellers make up the difference? Thanks.




Best answer:

Answer by Uncle John
They both get percentages. But being that the publisher pays the authors, they take their share out of it, and only take what the contract allows. However, how well books do, is a factor. If they become best sellers, they get printed and sold longer than if they don't.

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