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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
A victimless crime? I don't buy that for a moment. Twenty bucks spent on something which is not what it was advertised to be is simple fraud.
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The bottomline is that I'll be more careful about what I buy. Tally another reason for having limitless faith in mankind. I'm hoping for a new species soon!  |
I'll jump in here, but this might better be related to earlier posts in the thread...
A counter-example of the thread has occurred several times at Baen. One well-known author comes up with the basic idea, and does a detailed outline. Another less-well known author takes the outline and runs with it. The book has both names on it, and, yes, the more well known one gets bigger type (thats marketing, and both authors would rather sell more copies!).
In one specific case, I'll say that David Drake wrote the outline, and Eric Flint finished the books, but that work is truly a joint authorship. And more research was done after the collaboration started, and a trilogy turned into er, um, five? books. The starting book in the series is "An Oblique Approach" and is sorta alternate history, but has a continuing perturbation instead of a single event.
Roger