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Old 07-13-2012, 12:06 PM   #50
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He could do but (as has been discussed before ad nausiam) his royalty payments are an author's legacy to his heirs. In most jobs, you get paid while you're doing the work. An author works "for free", and gets paid once the work is complete
Some people deserve to have money due to their ancestry. Like it has been forever.

I liked it more when their title was like "count" or "marquis" rather than "the grand-grandson of Dan Brown", but we can't have everything, can we?

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