Sentences with phrase «huge percentage of the profits»

The problem was that the publisher was taking such a huge percentage of the profits from each book that my Step Father was only making about # 1 a copy for himself.

After my experience in the mud flats, I never complained about the price of a package of frozen bloodworms again, and I realized that the store that sold them must have made a huge percentage of its profit strictly on this one item.

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Look at the balance sheets of any major developer of a retail product (I research market performance of certain video games, which sell much the same way as books do) and see how much is spent marketing the product — it's always a huge percentage of expenses and generally larger than net profit.