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Fat Abe · 10-22-2015, 09:50 PM

Do full-time writers really make as little as $17,500, according to:

https://www.authorsguild.org/wp-cont...al-updated.pdf

This is shocking but Google cannot be attributed as the cause of the decline in earnings. Blame the libraries, Xerox machines, and ebook lending institutions. Providing a tiny snapshot of a book does not encourage piracy. The greater danger to authors are bookstores that allow you to browse as much of a book as you're able to read in an hour. After that, the prospective buyer makes an economic decision, and I would say that most readers decline to purchase the majority of books that they open. Why doesn't the Author's Guild push for pamphlets of books, keeping the big prize sealed?

10-22-2015, 09:50 PM	#19
Fat Abe Man Who Stares at Books Posts: 1,826 Karma: 10606722 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: 50th State, USA. Also, PA, NY, CA, and elsewhere. Device: All of the Above	Do full-time writers really make as little as $17,500, according to: https://www.authorsguild.org/wp-cont...al-updated.pdf This is shocking but Google cannot be attributed as the cause of the decline in earnings. Blame the libraries, Xerox machines, and ebook lending institutions. Providing a tiny snapshot of a book does not encourage piracy. The greater danger to authors are bookstores that allow you to browse as much of a book as you're able to read in an hour. After that, the prospective buyer makes an economic decision, and I would say that most readers decline to purchase the majority of books that they open. Why doesn't the Author's Guild push for pamphlets of books, keeping the big prize sealed?