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Agreed. 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 cop
by Aachen 6y ago
Agreed. 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.