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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
You'd likely be pissing and moaning and saying your company are dirty rat bastards if they tell you to take a 5% pay cut and keep doing the same high quality work you've been doing for years.
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No one owes anyone else a living. What you're failing to equate here is the difference between being paid ahead of time for an expected job, versus being paid afterwards for a job completed.
Salary jobs pay you X amount and expect you to work your @ss off, hopefully netting the governing entity a profit. Hourly wages, you work when there's work to do, and get paid on what you produce.
Authors are not on salary. They complete a job ahead of time, and try to peddle it to the highest bidder. They have no right to an expectation of a lower limit for their work. If they don't like the terms, they can peddle their work elsewhere. If they signed a multiple book contract, well that's the price you pay for the security of money in the future.
If authors collectively said NO to stupid contracts, publishers would change their contracts. "The power is yours!" - Captain Planet