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Originally Posted by kane
Also, like you say, authors tend to make more per sale of a book that a musician does on the sale of a CD.
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Most actually tend to make less. Like music industry the book industry funds poor selling authors, flops, etc. by what the more successful authors bring in. Most if not all of an authors money comes in via the advance, few are lucky enough to reach sales figures that get them money per copy sold. Then like I said the music industry does not buy back unsold copies of stuff like the book industry does.
He very well "could" profit if he released a full book at a low price. He was curious about several aspects though. One of which was would the public support the development of a book - in essence replace that advance most authors need to live on while they write. Assuming there was not some large publishing company behind them doing well what the publishing (or recording) companies do.