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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I will say that I rarely if ever buy dead tree books anymore, for a number of reasons. But I will still buy both the ebook and the audiobook and I don't mind paying hardback prices to get it when it first comes out. I realize that not everyone is in a position to do that, but I've had way too many authors that I liked give up writing because they couldn't make a living at it. Good writers are hard to come by.
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Truth. I know a number of authors whose work I loved who walked away. Some of them by choice and some because their publisher decided they weren't profitable enough. And if a publisher drops an author, that author usually can't continue the series on her own (The publisher won't allow it.)
Great piece by Julie Hyzy explaining just some of what goes on when it comes to a series (a very popular midlist series) and trying and failing to make money at it:
http://juliehyzy.blogspot.com/2015/1...od-things.html