I will admit, when I first embarked on my book project, The Pivotal years: Israel and the Arab World 1966 – 1977. 
I did not anticipate it would turn into an almost 1400 page project that would take several years to finish. Nor did I realize how much a new, self-publisher like myself needed to learn in order to make a manuscript available in print and eBook format. But now that I have published a kindle version that combines Volume One and Volume Two and a print version for Volume One (Volume Two will be available on-line in May), I thought some might be interested in the economics of this endeavor. So, I will break it down for you into four parts:
- Cost of preparing the manuscript
- Royalties for Kindle
- Royalties for print publication
- Final thoughts