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fjtorres · 04-03-2012, 05:56 PM

Authors should expect to get paid.
Good writers will get paid enough to live on and more.
Even some not-so-good writers will still get paid reasonably.

The biggest change is that the payment will not be so front-loaded as in the age of print, where going out of print stopped revenue. Competition will be higher since new releases will be competing with the ever-deeper backlist, but the long tail of perpetual availability will balance that out for good writers.

04-03-2012, 05:56 PM	#10
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	Authors should expect to get paid. Good writers will get paid enough to live on and more. Even some not-so-good writers will still get paid reasonably. The biggest change is that the payment will not be so front-loaded as in the age of print, where going out of print stopped revenue. Competition will be higher since new releases will be competing with the ever-deeper backlist, but the long tail of perpetual availability will balance that out for good writers.