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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I think you confuse royalty (i.e. payment for what was sold) with the advance. I think that authors get advances from the initial publisher of the work, not from subsequent geographical publishers. Obviously I could be wrong, but from what I read, that's normally the way it works. The royalty payments (i.e. how much the author gets per sale) probably does vary based on publisher.
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Sorry, I did indeed mean advances. Two different publishing contracts means two advances. This is why authors benefit from limited publishing contracts.