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Assuming some kind of long tail, then this just means they're giving slightly more risky authors a chance just in case any becomes the next JK or whatever. Is t
by wisty 6y ago
Assuming some kind of long tail, then this just means they're giving slightly more risky authors a chance just in case any becomes the next JK or whatever. Is this a bad thing?
I'm sure most authors would rather their work was published, even if it only sold a few thousand.
- Aachen 6y agoAgreed. I also wonder if we underestimate or undervalue when thousands of people pay for and read your material. (Many of those books won't sell close to 5k copies, but that's the bar the article set.)
- TheCoelacanth 6y agoI think a lot of the hand-wringing about this forgets that books are very cheap to produce. A single annual bonus for a FAANG software developer could easily cover the full upfront cost of several books, including a decent sized advance for the author (not GRRM or JK Rowling obviously, but a normal author). A book that sells 5k copies probably isn't making money, but it also isn't losing a large amount unless they gave the author an unusually large advance.