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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
All one-off costs that could easily be paid for from the profits from your previous book. The advance would be useful, but I somehow doubt they would give one to an unknown writer on the off-chance that they will write a decent book. Small press publishers don't pay any advances at all.
Most, if not all, writers will write their first book part time while they support themselves some other way. If they find enough of an audience for that to interest a big publisher they could easily live off that long enough to write their second book.
Not relevant to ebooks/POD books, and I think that is just in America anyway. Probably not relevant to any books 5 years from now.
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However, it does explain why publishers take the share they do in the market as currently constituted - and yes, the authors of first novels do get advances too.
I don't think you fully understand the commercial publishing process.