Re: Pirate PHP books online?

David Powers wrote: > I suspect that your estimate of the advances paid by Apress/friends of > Ed is inflated. Royalties are no secret: Apress publishes its standard > contract on the web for prospective authors to see. The basic rate is > 10% of the net income received by the publisher. Since heavy discounting > is prevalent in the publishing industry, this means the author ends up > with less than 5% of the book's cover price. So on a book with a cover > price of $40, the author gets less than $2. Based on the fact that this is almost identical to every other publisher (O'Reilly, Sams, etc.), and based on the fact that Richard said he has a lot of experience in this industry, I suspect his estimate was spot on. You're right, though, it's difficult to get any return on your time investment. :-) Chris -- Chris Shiflett http://shiflett.org/