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Originally Posted by netseeker
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.
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Just for the interested readers: I got asked if i could back up my statement about some authors here in germany. One of them published an article (unfortuntely in german only) and mentioned what i wrote in the post above:
http://irights.info/index.php?id=747. (
Google translation here).
The articles main topic is on copyright infringement in Iran but in the two passages "Das Problem ist das Geld" (The problem is the money) and "Verschiedene Geldquellen" (Various sources of income) she writes about her sources of income.