Book Publishers Profit Margins

Note that this discount varies between 40 and 50.

Book publishers profit margins. Use the book profit calculator below to calculate the potential income a book will add for you. In 2012 and 2013 elsevier posted profit margins of more than 40. Which was also home to the british book publishing house.

According to jones the average profit margin of a corporate publisher is now around 13 where once it was 10. Ebook publishers pay different royalty percentages depending on what price the ebook has. When the books sells to a customer the store then makes a 4 profit 10 6 4.

But this is based on the r r p not the money the publisher collects. According to a recent analysis by industry publication publishers lunch the largest worldwide. Similarly 7 5 is the standard paperback royalty generally rising to 10.

Bookshops and wholesalers take more than half the. Informa s academic publishing division reported revenue of 530 0m gbp and operating profit of 154 1m gbp for an operating profit margin of 29 note operating profit doesn t include taxes. The bookstore buys the book for 6 or 40 discount off the retail price from the publisher who calls that 6 the net price.

Remember you re only one book away from changing the rest of your life. Research shows that ebooks priced between 2 99 and 9 99 sell the most all things being equal so some online publishers incentivize pricing that falls between that range with higher royalties as can be seen in the chart. The following year aspesi reversed his recommendation to sell.