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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Given that it's August 14th, 2015, that's pretty much as up to date as one gets. Trying to look at 2015 figures ignores the fact that many of the big sellers tend to come out in the September/October time frame and give a false comparison.
I'm talking books. If you talk authors, you start to get into chapter books where one actual book counts as 5-10 in the sales figures. That leads to an apples to watermelons comparison.
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You just confused me.
You want to say that advances are great. Here is the thing. If the author has no other books out, unless they are super exceptional, they won't get that 80k advance. Even then, that promised advance might not be all one payment.
Referring back to Ms Aubrey, the papers said that she turned down a 6 figure advance. In reality, the advance was in 3 increments over a period of 3 books and only if the first book sold wonderfully.
So it is possible that 80k was more like 25k.
Now I would bet money that if Hugh or Joe or a few other indies told the Randy Penguin, they wanted 100k to write a book, the penguin would say yes.