thread: 2007-03-21 : lumpley games in 2006
On 2007-03-21, Vincent wrote:
IPR takes a (very reasonable) slice off the cover price. Then they also pass all their shipping costs, web hosting costs, advertising costs, and warehousing costs along to us publishers, their clients.
They're a fulfillment house. I still own all my books, even if they're in Brennan's garage. (Or wherever they physically are; they aren't actually in Brennan's garage anymore.)
A distributor would buy the books from me, then turn around and sell them. Do distributors ever sell direct to customers? Maybe they do, but I've only heard of them selling to retailers. When you sell to a distributor, you sell at basically 25% of the cover price, so that the distributor can sell the book to a retailer for 50% and still make money. (Ouch!)
