Industry links
Aug. 31st, 2009 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
megwritesRethinking the Publisher/Author Relationship by Robert Miller which is a response to M.J. Rose's "Publishers Must Change the Way Authors Get Paid".
I can't add much commentary as an unpublished aspirant, except that these two links both scare the heck out of me. It makes me wonder what you do when you really don't have the financial resources to devote to marketing for a book.
I mean, what happens to you as a writer if you need to take that advance and use it on rent and medicine and food? Even with a day job, many writers are in dire financial straits. If they can't devote financial resources to advertising and marketing, are they just doomed to failure?
Like I said - scary.
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I can't add much commentary as an unpublished aspirant, except that these two links both scare the heck out of me. It makes me wonder what you do when you really don't have the financial resources to devote to marketing for a book.
I mean, what happens to you as a writer if you need to take that advance and use it on rent and medicine and food? Even with a day job, many writers are in dire financial straits. If they can't devote financial resources to advertising and marketing, are they just doomed to failure?
Like I said - scary.
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