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Originally Posted by library addict
Authors have said in the past that preorder numbers do help them.
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Which authors?
Paper or ebook?
Trad or SP?
What definitely helps authors is sales and secondly good reviews. Or non-negative* controversy / exposure on mainstream media.
[* Well publicised school / library bans or rants from politicians (or tabloids) likely helps far more than any other publicity. I can't see how pre-orders help except to encourage trad publishers to do more promotion or a bigger paper print run, and they'd need to be big numbers.]