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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
They get paid in the short term despite the success, or lack thereof, of the book, but whether they have a job in the long term depends on the success of that book and any others published by the entity that is paying them. If only three people pay for the book, whether it's read by two people or two billion people, and no matter how many of those people send money to the author, then there's no money for the company to keep paying them. So even if the author makes a million dollars from his tip jar, the poor slob in the mailroom is out of a job.
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Well, now we're wandering onto familiar ground the OP asked us to avoid, but if the executives and board of directors respond to the market in such a way that consumers turn to piracy en masse, then the poor slob's lost job is no more nor less than the corrective influence of black markets upon an intractable industry.