Something to think about… I came across this passage while looking something up on google.

Publisher’s Lunch quoted a large New York publisher as saying it cost them an average of $75,000 to produce one print run. Would you pay $75,000 for your book? Why or why not? Source: www.drakevalleypress.com/workshops/rewriting.htm

It got me wondering, would I pay $75,000 for my book? Would you pay $75,000 for your book?

I know publishing is changing, and this is perhaps on the high end, but nevertheless, it puts the true cost of publishing in the spotlight. There’s real money behind each book on the shelves and the publishers are gambling that they’ll make that money back and then some. Do you have the goods to make them money?