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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Oh sure, most donation-ware programmers have day jobs. Most writers do, too. 
What's the percentage of writers who live entirely on their writing, and not from a day job or a spouse or some other source of income? I'll bet it's pretty small.  |
And there is few ones that stand out. Stumbled across:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...iction_authors.
I know you cannot always trust wikipedia - but anyway take it with a grain of salt. Very interesting how J.K. Rowling made it in that list into spot 11. There are not all that many others that made it there with fewer than 10 books. If memory serves right, until the 4th book (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) Rowling was practically unheard of. And then BOOM with pure dumb luck it exploded. The books get progressivly better throughout the series if you look at it writing wise, not story wise. Compare that to Lord of the Rings, which is written in 6 books, writing wise every single one of them books is high quality right from the beginning. And Tolkien is only in spot 33.
Don't get me wrong - I do enjoy reading Harry Potter - have most of them in hardcover, all in paperback twice. And I am not one single bit ashamed for having all of them in ebook in pdf, epub, and mobi. It is too bad that the ebooks are all based on the american version, and not the original. But then it is better than not having the ebooks.