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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
No, I'm calling you a troll because your data actually completely agreed with me (Ebooks are not new, and books come to market in a fraction of the period ebooks have been rising in importance) while you tried to make out that it didn't. And since you have no fear of blacklisting, you won't mind providing the name then.
I appreciate that you're angry that your Husband failed to negotiate a decent contract and has been shafted by his publisher, but lashing out at others doesn't help.
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I might point out that when negotiating a contract for delivery a significant time in the future, one of the first things a negotiator should be doing is figuring out what will be important in the future. And what you should really be looking at is not the conditions that will prevail when distribution starts, but what will prevail over the 'life' of your book sales. (I'll guess at a year, average. Some books remain popular for several years, but most seem to 'flash' and disappear. So I'll guess at an average of a year.)
So, if the contract is negotiated a year before the book is distributed, the negotiator should be looking at market changes that might occur during the next two years. Is that a significant period of time? IMO, yes-but opinions do differ, you know.
Even so there was reference to a book being part of a series (I believe that was what justified the long lead time on the contract). In a case like that then the negotiator should be looking at the life of the series-not just of the individual book. That, IMO, would certainly be a significant period of time.
So, I think I agree with you on this one, Dawn. About negotiating a poor contract that is-not sure about calling people trolls, though. Not really all that polite even if it is *sometimes* justified.