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Old 02-25-2010, 11:52 AM   #88
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114 View Post
Two things I'd say to that:

2. You're comparing risk of losing a job, vs. the case of having to do the same job for less money which is what we've been talking about.

That it would suck for successful authors to get less $$ per copy for the same quality work just because of a switch from paper books to e-books.
Actually, this is happening in a lot of industries right now. Big corporations cut salaries by 5-10% and your choice is take the cut or leave.

This is really nothing new, a lot of times it is temporary, but recently it has been permanent (about a year ago it was 5% for the company I work for).

--Carl
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