> Everyone who claims 20 years is more than enough is looking at highly successful works. I would argue the opposite: that for non-bestsellers, income after 20

> Everyone who claims 20 years is more than enough is looking at highly successful works. I would argue the opposite: that for non-bestsellers, income after 20 years is completely negligible. NO one is buying 2nd rate fiction 20 years after it was first published, only bestsellers will still sell a significant fraction after that long. I also don't see how potential income 20 years later could ever effectively motivate or enable a person...