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Originally Posted by axel77
Who should make this big one-time payment? And how is he compensated?
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That's the way many publishers used to work with writers' stables: You were commissioned to write a book, you wrote for them, you got paid.
If you can find organizations that will allow writers to work for them and produce, say, a book every two months, give them a set salary and send them home at 5PM... call me!
Publishers could do this now... but they use the royalty system to allow them to pay a smaller fee to the writer up front, and allow the rest to be dictated by actual sales. IOW, they're taking much of their risk out of the equation. Get publishers to accept the risk, and you're cool.
Edit: Damn, I just posted thrice in a row in a piracy thread. Guess I better check back into Mayo for a few weeks...