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What are you talking about? Who financed authors previously? 99 percent of the time it was their day jobs or their previous income/royalties. Advance payment
by mynameishere 16y ago
What are you talking about? Who financed authors previously? 99 percent of the time it was their day jobs or their previous income/royalties. Advance payments are rarely big enough to live on for unknown (ie, poor) authors. And where did you get the idea of advertisements from? These vanity presses pay much higher percentage royalties than normal publishers and so total readership is actually less important.
- RevRal 16y ago>And where did you get the idea of advertisements from? There was a recent submission that touched on this: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/01/booty-call.html http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/01/booty-call.html
- thunk 16y agoWoah, hostility. > Who financed the authors previously? I was referring to the wide world of midlist authors who make a living writing books, but don't get filthy rich, and who couldn't get by without advances from publishers. Advertisements was just an idea for a possible revenue stream in a future where people are no longer willing to purchase books.