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Originally Posted by crich70
And they were paying by the word for those first rights. After that the author didn't receive more but with a book you get quarterly payments for your work.
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Paperback originals were mostly focused on long-form so short story writers lost a lot of markets when the pulps went away. Also, some authors double-dipped--pulps and books--so the move to paperback originals wasn't a net win for everybody.
Disruptions bring both winners and losers, as we're seeing with ebooks, which is why the entrench players resist them.