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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Amen and amen! Do you get cash up front for your truly weird books? In case their rabbi hears of it and puts the kibosh on it?
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Hi:
We get cash upfront for ALL our books. The first two years I was open, doing more business as a proper business (rather than sitting at home doing a few books here and there) I was ripped off $10K the first year and $12K the second--by authors. That was the end of "pay upon completion" forever.
People used to talk to me about how I worked in the Real Estate Development world, and with contractors, etc., and about how it must have been awful to work in such a corrupt world, with crooks everywhere, etc--trust me when I tell you, authors and publishers are FAR bigger thieves than any of the contractors, union guys, F&B providers, or the like,
ever were.
EVER. I had far less trouble with people ripping me off, being corrupt or anything like that, in my former line of work than I do now.
There's simply something about digital goods--whether they're eBooks or PDFs for print interiors for paperbacks--that just makes people feel as though they're not receiving or thieving, something of value. If they can't SEE you do the work, well....then, it can't be very hard/valuable, either, can it?
Hitch