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Originally Posted by ahi
Authors definitely get screwed over by publishers... but let's not pretend most authors have either the money or the knowledge or the competence (at those things) to do all the things their publisher does for them.
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Or time. An author may be entirely willing to get 10% of the sales in order to spend his time writing, rather than editing and re-editing and formatting the book and figuring out where to advertise it and how to distribute it to stores. Even if he's got all those skills, he'd rather take less of a cut for doing what he loves.
Getting 100% of the profits isn't as meaningful if you can only spend 1/10 of your time producing profitable work, and the rest of your time is spent on admin & distribution.