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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I remember your friend.
Oh and on the advances unless your name is "I can make the publisher a ton of money", that book has to be almost finished before they get the advance.
You say that advance sounds better. Maybe. Let's see, I can go with big publisher and get 10-25% of the profits my book makes with the publisher doing the accounting or I can go with Amazon and make roughly 69% of my total sales. I don't want to give someone 50% of my hard work.
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Then don't if you think the math works out for you. Some authors feel that way and more power to them. But there really is a reason that Best Selling Authors (the initial subject of the thread) tend to stay with traditional publishers and why a number of indies who make it good, sign with traditional publishers. In theory, since they actually do have the real sales figures and income figures to work with, I would assume that they are making a decision that they think is in their best interest.