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One of these volumes, that for which she got £^S^ l^^s been subjected to a little calculation as to cost, sale, and profit. The figures show that a sale of 10, 000 copies means a profit of ^155 to the publishers and of ^^45 to the author. This is a firm for business avowedly Christian ! Of course if the sale is 20, 000 or more, the iniquity of the transaction becomes tenfold worse.
Again, everybody knows the " Novelettes, " the won- derful pennyworth of excitement and horror which form the stap...le reading of the lower-class British female. They are sold by hundreds of thousands. They cost to produce a small fraction under a halfpenny, they realise to the publisher a small fraction over a halfpenny. This seems little, but the sale is enormous. The publisher gets enviably rich, and it is so thriving a trade that one wonders there 32 THE METHODS OF PUBLISHING.
is not more competition. The sums paid to the authors of these works vary from £2 los. To .^10 for a novelette of 30, 000 words — say, on an average, £^ a-piece.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
One of these volumes, that for which she got £^S^ l^^s been subjected to a little calculation as to cost, sale, and profit. The figures show that a sale of 10, 000 copies means a profit of ^155 to the publishers and of ^^45 to the author. This is a firm for business avowedly Christian ! Of course if the sale is 20, 000 or more, the iniquity of the transaction becomes tenfold worse.
Again, everybody knows the " Novelettes, " the won- derful pennyworth of excitement and horror which form the stap...le reading of the lower-class British female. They are sold by hundreds of thousands. They cost to produce a small fraction under a halfpenny, they realise to the publisher a small fraction over a halfpenny. This seems little, but the sale is enormous. The publisher gets enviably rich, and it is so thriving a trade that one wonders there 32 THE METHODS OF PUBLISHING.
is not more competition. The sums paid to the authors of these works vary from £2 los. To .^10 for a novelette of 30, 000 words — say, on an average, £^ a-piece.
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