Under normal circumstances, it is to find a publishing house to publish, and the profitable publishing house accounts for the bulk, and the author can only get the code (pricing? 5% ~ 12% of the print run) as royalty income (well-known authors only get more than 10%, and generally can't get 8% unless the book sells well). But publishers bear market risks. Secondly, the cost of self-funded publishing depends on several factors. First, the book number is very important. What kind of book number is needed? Ordinary local ISBN should have ISBN management fee of 12 thousand, followed by the number of words in the work and the cost of typesetting design. The more words in this respect, the more expensive it is, and so is post-printing. The reason is that the more words, the more energy you spend, but there are advantages, and the greater the adjustability of your own pricing. Finally, in printing, it is mainly the cost of paper and printing. In printing, the more books are printed, the lower the cost of each book. Generally speaking, celebrities or people with certain sales channels will choose this method, and there is the signing of the website text. This is more complicated. Every website is different. Generally speaking, if you sign a contract, you can ask the editor directly. There are generally two kinds of signers and signers. Only your book is signed, and the copyright of all your books belongs to the website within five years, so the author's article is not particularly well written, and many people will not make a profit after reading it.
Do you still make money by writing and publishing books?
Writing a book itself does not make money. Except for dozens of best-selling books every year, most of them are royalties of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, and some of them are not enough. A person who can write a book and publish it with royalties can't earn this 30 thousand yuan or 20 thousand yuan. If it is a thousand-word remuneration system, the publishing house will give even less, 1000 yuan for a thousand words, or 50 yuan. This was the standard 20 years ago, and it is still so much now (touch the dog's head of the code word). Privatization is slightly higher, but not much. However, I always feel that the author can make huge profits when a book is published, in addition to the manuscript fee.
What is the profit model of publishing house?
At present, domestic publishing houses are divided into two categories. One is education publishing house, which makes money by selling teaching materials and teaching AIDS every year. It makes countless money, and it is difficult for outsiders to get in. The other is that most publishing houses make money by selling book numbers. For publishing houses, publishing and ISBN are their main businesses. No matter how the world changes, it is impossible for a publishing house to turn its main business into real estate.