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Originally Posted by taustin
And, in fact, most professional fiction writers don't make anywhere near enough to live on. I believe less than 10% do. The average income from writing is less than $5k per year.
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For fiction writers living entirely on writing income it's probably less than 5 percent. Although I haven't seen any polls with updates on that sort of thing in a long time. Most of us do have day jobs and writing may or may not supplement that. In many cases the day job FUNDS the writing. (And this is true for traditionally published writers as well as self-published writers. Most of us pay for the majority of our own promotion. Traditionally published writers do get some promo, but that generally includes review copies of a certain number and little else.) The more popular a writer, the more promo they get.
BUT, our pay shouldn't be the topic here and I apologize for leading the discussion astray. The point was that DRM for a writer may play a different and possibly more significant role than it does for music. From a reader standpoint, those who don't like DRM can work around it. From a writer standpoint we're caught between a rock and a hard place as far as making decisions on what to offer and when.