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Old 01-23-2015, 05:29 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Phogg View Post
That's an interesting link, but it didn't say whether or not anyone had successfully crowd-funded a non-fiction book. It did, however, prompt me to have a deeper look at Kickstarter, and at least one person has used it to pay them a salary while writing a non-fiction book: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...2598/zenhabits.

Re-reading my first post, I may not have been clear about what I was wanting to find. Does anyone have evidence that publishers pay non-fiction authors enough of an advance to enable the author to research and write the book without needing a day job?
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