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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Perhaps he believes Scalzi is part of group #3
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In his genre he is a big seller.
His multimillion dollar contract was news, after all.
If there were hundreds of SF writers making that kind of money nobody would've noticed.
Again, remember the recent "discovery" by the Author's Guild that half its members would live in poverty if writing was their only source of income. This, while the publishers rake in billions through "creative" contract clauses.
For ever big bucks Scalzi or Preston standing up for tradpub and signing letters to the DOJ, there's a hundred just sucking it up and hoping their next book doesn't come out while their publisher is in a catfight with B&N (like S&S in 2013) or Amazon (like Hachette in 2014).
Seriously, who would volunteer for those deals if they had a choice?
As I said, either they're naive or they don't have a choice.