According to received wisdom, money is not a huge factor in the publishing world. In truth, a total focus on printing as an economic pursuit is long proved as futile.
It doesn’t add up to even the basic expectations of a concurrent time, or era.
It wouldn’t matter that J K Rowling’s bestseller Harry Potter series saw an outlay of about £30 million to setup, and is now worth in the region of £90 billion, according to reports.
The fact is books won’t ever convert into dollars in any significant, meaningful way.
This isn’t the point of much of its art or its feature in literary culture and life, either. It doesn’t make sense to seek fortunes out of a private pursuit, one that is also the subject of study at school – and no small amount of stress for some.
The real money is likely to stay in money itself, but the value of wisdom and the substance of life is in the letters we use to write to each other.