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Originally Posted by Hitch
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
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Real Estate Developers, contractors, etc. have to deal with Yelp, authors... not so much.