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Originally Posted by MovieBird
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
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Again, I'm talking about successful authors who have good contracts--but long-term ones etc.
If they're locked into a % of sales (even a good %) is it fair for them to see less money because people feel e-books should cost significantly less than the print versions.
For up and coming authors, e-books can be a good thing as they can more easily avoid having to sign a bad contract to get their book out, as they have easier ways of self publishing etc.
But it can be a problem for established authors with long term deals to do some many books with a publisher who see their number of copies sold stay up while their take goes down as people expect the e-book to be $9.99 day one of the hardcover release etc.