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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Funny how people want to talk about the extremes while pretending that must be the norm.
Authors, be they indie or traditional publishers, who pull in 6 to 7 figures on a book are very much the exception rather than the rule. A little research shows that the vast majority of authors who do get advances, get under 20K.
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And in 1974 Anne Rice got 12k for
Interview with the Vampire when the norm for new authors was 2k. That is not even 10 times as much gap. 20k vs even the lowest figure 7 digit advance is a factor 50. If anything the pushing and creating and depending on a few best sellers became even more important over time. Especially now with ebooks.