Thread: Dear Publishers,
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Old 02-02-2010, 01:18 PM   #34
Pardoz
Which side are you on?
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I've never understood why authors let publishers get away with things like that.
Lynn Abbey has a fantastic blog post on this. A few select quotes: "It’s pathetic, but true: I’d give up a lot for the simple freedom of writing my stories." and "It’s a deal with the devil….but one that’s been entered into knowingly, because it’s been the only deal around. I’ll accept pittance royalties and get sucked into living off advances for books that can’t earn out (because the publisher won’t print enough copies for the book to earn out.) I accept what amounts to a sharecropper’s existence because I’m really, really lousy at self-promotion."
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