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Originally Posted by hogleg
Most writers usually don't make a living off writing. Standard royalties used to be 6%, with a bum up to 8% after 150,000 copies. figure $.45 for each book. 45,000 bucks for 100k books. Keep in mind that you may not reach that many books for 10 years, and your advance (against ryalties) may be 4 grand.
The reason I say that is that grey market eBooks don't really hurt publishers as much as they hurt authors.
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You get 0.45 for a book and you say that downloaders hurt you? Man, do you know what are you talking about? How long it takes to recognize your actual enemy?
At least you should get 50% in a healthy world order. A downloader may have taken 0.45 from you but your publisher steals 3.3 per copy. (If there is book for 7.5 that is 6%, which I doubt if you can get a good book for that much.)
Let me know your book's name, I check if I accidentally downloaded and I am glad to pay 0.45 per book, but I would not have purchased it for the price of a paper book or a hardback anyway.
I don't think downloaders steal author's money. If a book was downloaded wrongfully 1,000,000 times it still does not mean that you could have sold more than 10,000 without free downloaders.
ONCE AGAIN, I CAN'T COMPREHEND (MY WIFE NEITHER) YOU GET 0.5 PER COPY and it's the fault of downloaders that you don't have money?