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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
This is exactly why I said that things don't match up in post 31. The blog seems to talk about a person new to the business, who barely managed to print short stories after being rejected by the Big 6, and not considering legal complications self-published them as two books with Amazon. There is one thing there as well, because she seems to imply that the unnamed publisher has a problem with her using Amazon, but the first of the short stories collection was e-published before the contract was signed.
In reality, Kiana Davenport published her first novel in 1994 and has a number of prizes under her belt. Before her first novel she was a Fiction Fellow at the Bunting Institute at Harvard-Radcliffe. Why would a publisher think that she can only sell 2500 copies? Why would she only get 25%?
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It is very interesting how different she seems in the blog as opposed to on Amazon...it does almost seem like two completely different people. I don't really know what to make of this, though.
2500 books is how many she needs to sell for the publisher to break even on the advance - presumably they hope she will sell many more, but that was all that they were willing to pay for up front. It would be interesting to know how many they were planning on printing. And maybe how many her other books sold.
As for the 25% - she says in her blog that she's giving up 75% of the "profits" from the e-book; I suspect that she just means that she's getting a 25% royalty on the e-book. But that's just my assumption.