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Originally Posted by HarryT
But advances are an advance on royalties, so it doesn't change the overall amount of money that the author receives. The author won't get any royalties at all until the book's "earned" the amount of the advance (if there is an advance, and relatively few authors get one).
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I understand all that but your previous comment (and others made by other users in various threads) makes it seem, to me at least, that authors have to struggle to get by to create their works.
They chose to put themselves in that position so don't expect sympathy from the rest of us who work, in your words,
most jobs.