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SPS-308: Foreign Market Opportunities for Authors - with Alex Newton

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What Is the Average Sail Ranking?

If you put ten thousand dollars translation cost against it, it would take you one thousand 456 days to earn back the ten thousand you spent translated in months. The whole thing is very sensitive to what is the sales rank you can realistically expect, what is the amount of money you put against it. And i suppose the complexity for mark is that he has multiple books and makes profit down the line with books two, three, four, five and six. I'm sure the ones making profit will do that. But then there's ten thousand uros per book to translate, so you've got to scale that up as well. These sheets show you not the absolute answer, but the risk factor

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