{"id":5628,"date":"2024-09-05T15:36:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2024-09-05T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:36:15","slug":"where-does-the-money-go-in-publishing-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/where-does-the-money-go-in-publishing-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Does the Money Go in Publishing? | A People’s Guide to Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you hang in certain circles, you’ll frequently hear that “Publishers have all the money,” which is funny because bookstores get the largest percentage of each sale. But everyone has to pay their staff and operating expenses, and often it’s bewildering to watch even the revenues from your bestsellers dwindle into nothingness.

So this week on the pod, we look at that illustrious pie chart and talk about how it all disappears so quickly! Please feel free to eat pie during this episode.

Prefer an audio experience?\u00a0Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app<\/a>.
Get the\u00a0People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0here<\/a>!
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If you hang in certain circles, you’ll frequently hear that “Publishers have all the money,” which is funny because bookstores get the largest percentage of each sale. But everyone has to pay their staff and operating expenses, and often it’s bewildering to watch even the revenues from your bestsellers dwindle into nothingness. So this week… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,12,26],"class_list":["post-5628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-books","tag-business-of-publishing","tag-podcast"],"my_excerpt":"\n

If you hang in certain circles, you'll frequently hear that \"Publishers have all the money,\" which is funny because bookstores get the largest percentage of each sale. But everyone has to pay their staff and operating expenses, and often it's bewildering to watch even the revenues from your bestsellers dwindle into nothingness.

So this week on the pod, we look at that illustrious pie chart and talk about how it all disappears so quickly! Please feel free to eat pie during this episode.

Prefer an audio experience?\u00a0Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app<\/a>.
Get the\u00a0People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0here<\/a>!
Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?\u00a0Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","my_excerpt_rendered":"\n

If you hang in certain circles, you’ll frequently hear that “Publishers have all the money,” which is funny because bookstores get the largest percentage of each sale. But everyone has to pay their staff and operating expenses, and often it’s bewildering to watch even the revenues from your bestsellers dwindle into nothingness.

So this week on the pod, we look at that illustrious pie chart and talk about how it all disappears so quickly! Please feel free to eat pie during this episode.

Prefer an audio experience?\u00a0Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app<\/a>.
Get the\u00a0People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0here<\/a>!
Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?\u00a0Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5630,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions\/5630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}