Re: consequences of shift to ebooks

--- In [email protected], Mary E Tyler <dejahvu@...> 
wrote:
>
> >> 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?

For something like a mainstream romance novel that would be quite 
realistic.

For a mainstream offset printing press skipping the advance has an 
entirely different meaning re: distributing the earnings over time and 
avoiding the rist of not earning out.  But I find not offering advances 
is more often assocated with a press not predicting many sales ;)  
Which is why the author not offered an advance needs some other method 
for estimating likely sales volume and so earnings [which is why I run 
a site that reports sales epublisher figures].



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