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Originally Posted by Quoth
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.]
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Pre-orders help to traditionally published authors, as the publisher look at the initial figures to decide if continuing the series.