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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Authors don't get paid for book readings unless the store wants to pay a big name like Dan Brown. They don't get paid much for going to conventions, or signing books, or anything else that takes time away from their writing, either. (They might get paid for interviews.)
Compared to how much bands make from live concerts it's really no comparison.
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Ok, the turnovers are different but it seems to me that such paid book readings are much more important for authors in europe than in the us because i know some authors here and the revenues of book readings, conventions and so on are a important proportion of their income. In other words: Those authors couldn't live from their work without these revenues.