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My understanding is that most authors of all types have a day job to support themselves financially.
What Franklin Foer said (and I quoted) is that publishers are able to pay non-fiction authors a large enough advance for the author to spend time and money researching the book. It also implies that those authors don't need to have a day job during the period that they are writing and researching. I've heard that argument put forward before in defence of publishers. I'm just trying to work out whether or not it's a valid argument.
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