Nobody who contributes the subject matter made much, if anything. For chapter books, if they get more than a copy of the final book, it's no more than hundreds.
Most publishers are broke too. The economics of editing, producing and distributing a physical book suck, and a lot of that spills over into ebooks.
Matt May
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