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frahse · 09-12-2011, 07:42 PM

Read her first words:

"I signed a contract with one of the Big 6 publishers in New York for my next novel. I understood then that I, like every writer in the business, was being coerced into giving up more than 75% of the profits from electronic sales of that novel, for the life of the novel. But I was debt-ridden and needed upfront money that an advance would provide."

So is she demanding that the publisher give her money (up front as well) on her terms, whatever they might be?

Well she can certainly ask for something like that, but the publisher has the right to refuse her terms.

And she had the right to refuse the publisher's terms.

So what is her complaint?

09-12-2011, 07:42 PM	#43
frahse occasional author Posts: 2,315 Karma: 2064403292 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Wandering God's glorious hills, valleys and plains. Device: A Franklin BI (before Internet) was the first. I still have it.	Not very logical. Read her first words: "I signed a contract with one of the Big 6 publishers in New York for my next novel. I understood then that I, like every writer in the business, was being coerced into giving up more than 75% of the profits from electronic sales of that novel, for the life of the novel. But I was debt-ridden and needed upfront money that an advance would provide." So is she demanding that the publisher give her money (up front as well) on her terms, whatever they might be? Well she can certainly ask for something like that, but the publisher has the right to refuse her terms. And she had the right to refuse the publisher's terms. So what is her complaint?