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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I don't think you quite understand the concept of advances. Advances are just that, an advance on the projected sales. A publisher who over estimates the advance on a regular basis tends to go out of business. I don't find it terribly surprising that an author who has established that people will buy their books are able to command higher advances. I think that this is something that is true from both authors who started via the normal publishing route as well as those who start via the indie route. I will note that for a true indie author, i.e. one who isn't using a publisher, the idea of an advance does not apply since there is no one to pay the advance. It's only indies who decide to move over to the publisher world who get advances.
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I think you have completely missed fjtorres' point...