Re: Fees for extraordinary expenses

It seems to me that this is only an issue because publishers are 
prepared to pay in advance for work that the author has not yet done, 
But why is this so? Nearly every other commercial arrangement that I 
know of doesn't deliver payment until the goods are received in a 
satisfactory condition.

If an author won't write a book without receiving an advance, it 
presumably means that they have reasonable doubts about the publisher's 
probity and/or the book's commercial potential -- in which case the book 
probably shouldn't be written anyway.

Everything I learn about fiction publishing makes it look less and less 
like a serious business and more and more like buying lottery tickets.

Jon.

Elizabeth Burton wrote:
> The clause in the Tsaba House is very much defined by failure on the  
> part of the author. It is intended to allow the publisher to recoup  
> unexpected extraordinary expenses related to a book's publication  
> should the author fail to provide necessary materials as he or she  
> asserted at the time the contract was made they would do.
>
>   

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