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Originally Posted by pwalker8
How many authors out there have published 30 or 40 books? Not many that's for sure. Most name authors have trouble writing more than one or two a year, year in, year out. Really successful authors might have that much in the back list from writing a couple of books a year over the space of 20 or 30 years.
Yes, I understand what you are saying. You buy 500 books a year, so you want to minimize your cost. But if we are talking paper book, how many of those 500 books are the same author? It doesn't help Rick Riordan in the slightest if you buy 500 books in a year if he's only put out two books in the same period. He cares about people buying his books, either as hard backs, paper backs, audio books or ebooks.
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Why should people limit themselves to a small set of authors?
A lot of people spending a little per book on lots of books are putting more money in more authors pockets than a few people buying a few books at high prices. (I am a slow reader and only buy a few (for this crowd) books a year, a very few expensive, some cheap, and some middling.)