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Originally Posted by taustin
The average American reads two books per year.
Royalty rates are, from what I understand, considerably less than 20%.
Very few professional writers make a living solely from writing.
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Umm, I guess that depends on the definition of professional
. I tend to think that if someone is a professional, it means that that is what they do to make a living
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That being said, if we restrict it to fiction (I am not sure about technical books), both books and shorter fiction, then only a fraction of one percent of writers seem to be able to sustain a career where being an author is their only job. My guess is, in all genres that the number is probably under a few thousand at any given time.
Of course it gets complicated if we start adding writers who write other things as well. How do you look at a journalist who writes an occasional novel on the side? He is certainly a full time writer... (same with someone who writes screenplays...).
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Bill