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Originally Posted by Phogg
If the price goes up very high the school districts will pick somebody else's book.
As well they should.
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And maybe the estate doesn't care about future needs, only the here and now needs for C-A-S-H.
The assumption here is they can afford to wait for mass market pennies to trickle in. That those pennies are enough to cover their waiting bills. That assumption might not be correct.
Try this scenario:
Lee has been sick for years.
Before that, her sister was sick for years. Then she died.
Imagine big medical expenses. Add a variety of taxes. Declining non-mass market sales.
Imminent bankruptcy forstalled by releasing WATCHMAN.
Then Lee dies.
Funeral expenses.
More taxes due.
WATCHMAN sales drying up.
We simply don't know the state of her finances.
She would hardly be the first big name author/celebrity/whatever of some bygone era to die in poverty or close to it.
Fame does not always equal revenues.