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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
I am just curious, how many authors do you think will write a dozen or more books in a career if they can expect no steady income from it? Every author that chooses to publish obviously wants readers; at the same time however, I think the number of serious authors who don't care about income is vanishingly small (Just as the number of people period who don't care about income). More than a few authors, including some very well respected authors have admitted that paying the rent was a major incentive for them to finish their book.
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And I'm curious what percentage of authors can actually live solely off of the money they earn writing books. I'm fairly sure the number is staggeringly small. In fact even some exceedingly popular authors may have difficulty solely relying on their writing income 100% of the time.
So, if I had to guess... I'd say the number of authors that would write a dozen or more books despite not being able to expect a steady income would be... exactly the same as it is today... minus a few hundred hacks, perhaps, whose writing probably isn't any good anyways.
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