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Originally Posted by rhadin
Finally, as always, Konrath believes that writers and writers alone create the market for books. No credit is given to anyone else. Yet, it is historically pretty clear that even the best of authors needed the help of agents, publicists, editors, publishers, and others to get the word out about how great the books were and to keep the books before the public's eye.
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I don't think anyone will deny that publishing is a partnership between publisher and writer and that both bring
something to the table. The question is which party adds the most value? I think most readers would be shocked at how low the writer's percentage of their money is, and writers who entertain millions of people really shouldn't need to stack shelves just to pay their bills.
I know the publishers take all the financial risk, but that really shouldn't justify any more than a 60% share in the profits. As for ebook only publishers, where there is nowhere near as much risk, 30-40% for publishers would be more realistic.
As for Konrath, I'd never heard of him until his "Pirate This" marketing campaign went viral so I don't know how well known he was in the print only days. But I've read a few of his books since, both proper-published and self-published, and they are all littered with typos so proof reading obviously isn't one of the things that proper-publishing added to them. The self-published ones do have a lot more gratuitous violence in them though