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by darthrupert 1890 days ago
I wrote a mediocre book on a popular programming language, and have gotten something like 10-20keuros. It took a year to write it, dunno how many hours, but probably not a very good hourly pay.
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It's based on anecdata but I think a non-fiction book - on average - still has a better ROI than a fiction book. While the outliers may make more money with fiction, the average writer will never make 10-20k from a fiction book. Probably an order of magnitude less.
Did you self-publish or use an established publisher?
An established publisher.