Nope, most of the costs of publishing books go into paying the author, the editors, typesetters, etc. Book and paper are usually sub $2 per volume when all is said and done.

Hot take: it’s not “feminist” to make a bunch of male characters the worst possible versions of themselves. I wasn’t overly fond of TSOA either, but making the characters misunderstood goody two shoes with modern morals is no worse than “they are all monsters.”