We don't know if
hardcover sales remained steady (as Nowell reported) because hardcover readers are hardcover readers and have sought out the hardcovers in various markets.
Not exact matches
The book debuted at # 10 on the New York Times
Hardcover Non-fiction Best Sellers list during its first week on
sale,
remained on the main list for 3 weeks, and continued on the extended list for 4 more weeks.
The
hardcover and paperback
sales remain level.
At the present time, traditionally published authors still only receive the standard 15 % royalty, identical to what they would earn on
hardcover sales; the chairman explained the historical rationale for the 15 % paid out to authors, which was based on the assumption that the cost of producing the physical book was about 70 % of the
sales price and the
remaining 30 % was to be split equally between the author and the publisher.
Written by Sue Johnson, published in 2008, the book
remains in
hardcover in the U.S. and Canada because it has yet to fall below the minimum
sales level required to trigger issuing a paperback edition.