Re: consequences of shift to ebooks

"auwg" <auwg-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.literature.ebook-community
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--- In [email protected], "Emily" <veinglory@...> wrote:
> 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].

Why author-guesstimate at all?
(Count chickens before they're hatched?)
Let the pubber worry about how many copies to print.
Plunk that title out there and count the presidents as they arrive.
The IRS tends to want hard numbers, not estimates.
My friend got her advance in '04 and received chargebacks in '05.
All that did was add to her tax paperwork. Hm. Twice over, come to
think of it, since she lives in VA. State income tax, too.
Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
http://www.AbintraPress.com
My Fictionwise Ratings: http://tinyurl.com/26v45



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