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Old 01-01-2021, 10:41 AM   #166
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
So how does the author get paid? Does he or she get half the amount for an ebook that he or she gets for a paper book? It's hard enough making enough money to be a full time author.
Indeed.
The pricing of a paper book or ebook is complicated and many self published authors are too cheap.

Most full time authors are on welfare as people on Zero Hours / Minimum wage make more. Only a small fraction of authors published by big publishers make enough to live on.
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