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Originally Posted by basschick
er... i must have missed something here. she was paid 25,000 and you say she made about $3 a book. 80,000x3 is 240,000, not 25,000. 25,000 for 80,000 books equals 31.25 cents per book.
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You're right, Basschick. Makes me think of E. E. Smith PHD. He
invented space opera, and worked at many jobs before and during his PHD candidacy.
He wrote in his spare time. He later said (in an article in the mid-1950's) that he made more money, and worked less hard, laying bricks that he made writing science fiction. He got top dollar in the pulps during his career, and had his books released in the indie press (and were top sellers in those presses) of the times. (They would later go into paperback, and stay in continual print for 3 decades...)
The more things change, the more they stay the same....