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Originally Posted by pwalker8
She earned it back fairly quickly didn't she? I don't necessarily know that Anne Rice and Interview with a Vampire is something to say that the advance system is broken.
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No, I meant the opposite. Back then the advance system was not broke. Not sure how long it actually took to earn out for her. But if she didn't earn out, then the risk was not painfully high. The gap is widening a lot between the rich and the poor. Imagine for a second that instead of 12K they would have shelled out a 120k advance for her - more in line with the difference between todays below 20k typical, 7 figure high advance. Go even crazier and imagine that book didn't come close to earning out, not even breaking even. In that case it would have taken ten times as many smaller books to make up for it.
No, Anne Rice was an example of how the system wasn't broken, and now it is.