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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Last I heard the average publisher advance was $5,000, nowhere near enough to quit your job, and you would still need to have a finished book to get that. Even if you wanted to give 90% of your income to a publisher you would be better off testing the market on Amazon first. Publishers only care about what they think they can sell, so if they can see something that already has a few sales and/or positive feedback they would be more lkely to look at that than some random manuscript someone sent them last year.
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I'm amused at the "everything should be free" guy trying to comment on the best way authors can go to make money.
The point remains standing -- an author needs incentive to write books. Financial incentive is the best known. The more an author makes, the more of his energies he will spend trying to create books. If he can make SOOO much money that he no longer spends his time writing, his success will ensure MANY folks will spend their time trying to earn those rewards.
It is the financial reward that is KEY to ensuring the creation of books. And that's why high prices that are successful are virtuous. It's a good thing for book lovers if book creators make a great living at writing books.
Lee