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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
How is 6-8% fair?
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• No one is forcing the authors to sign a contract.
• Harlequin pays advances, unlike many other romance publishers.
• The average "earn-out" for a Harlequin book is around $10,000.
• 40-60% of that earn-out is from the advance.
• There are a
lot of people willing to write for Harlequin. If supply is high, then prices are low.
I do think that if the contracts were unclear, then there's a legitimate reason to bring suit. However, paper book sales are not part of the suit, and we're talking about a period in time before ebooks were really on the radar.
I.e. we're not talking about Harlequin jacking a gazillion dollars. It's probably a small amount per author, which will be further whittled down by the attorneys who are handling the suit.