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Originally Posted by 4691mls
I don't begrudge authors wanting to make money at their chosen career.
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For me, it's not just that.
More than half the books I read are research-based non-fiction. This gives me a selfish reason for wanting the publishers to get as much money as possible from the affluent and/or impatient people who buy books shortly after release, while eventually bringing in larger audiences. I think books with low prices at release will be given ever lower advances, and then be more quickly written with less spending on travel, research assistance and editing.
When I read this next quote from an Amazon executive, I say, whoa, that is not likely to produce books I want to read:
"The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader. Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity."
Yes, there are good authors who do not require a village to produce their books. But I think they are far rarer than sometimes supposed. I wouldn't want to read a police procedural if the author didn't spend a lot of time not just with editors, but also with actual police, prosecutors, and defense attorneys.