Re: consequences of shift to ebooks

--- In [email protected], "Emily" <veinglory@...> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "auwg" <auwg@> wrote:
> > I've never understood why publishers pay an advance. 
> One reason for an advance is so the author knows with utter veracity 
> how many copies the press thinks they will sell.

'Utter veracity' of someone's best guess, huh? Cool.

> If they offer say $30,000 then they genuinely believe
> the can sell 10s of thousands of copies.

How many new novelists, especially in fiction, receive advances that
high? What are more realistic advances?
  
> These days many small POD and epresses sell less than
> 100 copies of a book in the first year.

We aren't talking about POD or epresses.
We're talking about simply skipping advances with the big presses and
relying on sales.
Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
http://www.AbintraPress.com
My Fictionwise Ratings: http://tinyurl.com/26v45



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