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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
I thought that in general, that the advance on a book was against royalties?
In any case, I think one thing that every publisher needs to keep in mind now is that power might well swing back towards the author. Really, we already see the fact that almost any author can now self publish on the internet. In times past, authors needed publishers not just for editing and marketing a book, but also for production and distribution. Now editing will be the prime function a publisher can provide for a book as I anticipate marketing will be more and more by word of mouth.
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Bill
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Yes, all royalties are paid out *after* 'paying back' the advance. (However, if the book doesn't sell enough for the royalties earned to exceed the advance, the publisher isn't coming after the author for the 'unearned' advance money.)
I think the big problem with your scenario is that most authors get conned into thinking they *must* DRM-protect their self-published works (along with the idea that PDF, formatted to the 8.5" x 11" page, is the 'standard' layout for an ebook.
) and that means we end up having either crappy DRM-laden PDF ebooks or we have a different DRM protection-scheme for every author's ebooks. PHOOOIEEE!
Derek