Re: consequences of shift to ebooks
Marion Gropen <[email protected]>
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Posted by: "auwg" auwg-/[email protected] auwg Sat Jan 5, 2008 10:12 pm
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> --- In [email protected], "Lida" <publisher@...> wrote:
>> Ebooks vs. p-books
>> With epublishers, your book can be accepted, published
>> and available to readers in about four months or less.
>> Very few epublishers will pay an advance.
>
> I've never understood why publishers pay an advance. Books are works
> of art created on spec, however good or bad they may be.
Because most books are acquired on the basis of a proposal, outline
and sample chapter(s). Then the writers finish writing them. The
first third of the advance is intended to keep the writer from
starving while completing his/her first book. The second third (on
acceptance) is intended to provide a strong incentive to complete it.
The last third is intended to tide the writer over until either the
next book is acquired or some excess royalties are earned.
Publishers who don't operate this way run out of authors.
Marion Gropen
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