The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
The Law and novella
g33k:
--- Quote from: Fcrate on June 01, 2022, 11:39:33 AM ---Your calculations don't take into account either the profit margin, or the turnover rate.
the signed-lettered-hardcover are much more profitable than paperback ...
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There is no "turnover" here. It's a one-and-done collector's edition (two thousand and twenty-six total books).
There are only twenty-six of the "Lettered" books. Even at $300per, the gross revenue is substantially under $10K.
A lot of that is going downstream, to the paper-mills and the printing houses. Limited runs and color plates are expensive!
If Jim gets as much as 25% of that gross, I'd be shocked... but that'd be just shy of US$2000. Which is nice, I guess -- I wouldn't say "no" if someone wanted to give me 2 grand! But it's not gonna make a dent in a divorce-proceeding or otherwise be life-changing for Jim.
His share of the larger 2000-edition print run is likely a smaller percentage, but higher in absolute dollars: even though his income-per-book is lower, 2000 copies is a LOT more than 26, so his total income from that will be higher.
Neither of which are even close to what he gets from the mass-market, which sells in the hundreds of thousands.
Mira:
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If Jim gets as much as 25% of that gross, I'd be shocked... but that'd be just shy of US$2000. Which is nice, I guess -- I wouldn't say "no" if someone wanted to give me 2 grand! But it's not gonna make a dent in a divorce-proceeding or otherwise be life-changing for Jim.
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Which makes no sense because with a $30.00 book he gets a 45% royalty I looked up how that works. And it is a huge risk because, though unlikely, what if the new novella turns out to be a real stinker? Word will get out and sales will suffer.
Dina:
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g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on June 01, 2022, 10:25:19 PM --- Which makes no sense because with a $30.00 book he gets a 45% royalty I looked up how that works.
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???
Where is your data from? 45% (of the retail/MSRP price?) sounds like WAY too high a share.
Most of what I can find -- and the numbers vary from one resource to another -- say the author's % varies by...
- lower % on paperbacks than hardcover
- lower % for the first 5K to 10K copies, higher % thereafter (I presume Jim can negotiate for the higher % throughout)
- generally topping around 20%-25% for the proven sellers
I cannot find ANY source saying the author gets over 30%
Ed0517:
--- Quote from: g33k on June 01, 2022, 02:56:04 AM ---
My own WAG -- a realworld WAG vs a Dresdenverse WAG -- is that the issue isn't "revenue" but contracts & "exclusive rights..." I theorize that Jim has negotiated the end of Subterranean's "exclusive" rights to this novella, so they match closely with the end of a bunch of other anthologized shorts. So it'll all be available around the same time, for him to produce a new Dresden collection.
But the story is written & available, and big enough to be its own thing; so he releases it in a "deluxe" collectors' edition, and the well-heeled megafans can get their hardcore itch scratched, and Jim gets a bit of revenue, pending the rest of his collection exiting their excusive-first-rights periods.
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Or even they already had an option on him - didn't they publish Backup, was it? Maybe that was a two book deal.
and the "No current plans" to publish The Law could be "no date yet" when he is thinking " "Little Capers" comes out when I have 350 pages of material to make it worthwhile. "
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