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Originally Posted by Jon_Doh
First, publishers rarely pay any advances anymore.
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I wonder what the evidence is for this. Then I have to admit lack of solid evidence for what I think -- which is that I hardly ever read a book whose author didn't get an advance.
As someone who reads about 2/3 non-fiction, I suspect that roughly half the books I finish would never have been written had a publisher failed to buy the book proposal. No advances, and book-length journalism would decline the same way
investigative newspaper journalism has declined.
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Everybody is making plenty of money at Amazon's prices or authors would stop writing and book publishers would stop publishing.
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Publishers look at the long term rather than quarter by quarter profits. Isn't that one of the good things about Amazon?