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Nobody is giving anything away
I love you Ed, but you're missing the point. The authors for the most part will not be giving anything away except cash from their wallet. After all, who else will buy the book?
So with tongue-partially-in-cheek, allow me to propose some alternative accounting. Let's go with 11,000 authors, even though PA maintains that 1000 of these authors never sold a single book and other PA authors have been released from their contract with PA in recent months.
So you have 200 authors contributing to this book. Let us assume that this is one of PA's bigger books, so it retails for $25. Let us also assume $5.50 of this is royalty. If each contributing author convinces one friend or relative to buy a copy, then we are looking at $1,100 in royalties. That's a dime for every PA author!
Ed Williams said:Okay, let me get this straight. Two hundred authors will give away material to be used in this book, which basically sounds like a catalogue. All proceeds will benefit all PA authors, but this is at the discretion of the author spearheading the project. If the money is evenly divided, PA claims about 11,000 authors, so whatever the royalty amount that's involved would be split between 11,000 people. When you factor all that together, one burning question must be asked....
Is there such a thing as a partial penny?
I love you Ed, but you're missing the point. The authors for the most part will not be giving anything away except cash from their wallet. After all, who else will buy the book?
So with tongue-partially-in-cheek, allow me to propose some alternative accounting. Let's go with 11,000 authors, even though PA maintains that 1000 of these authors never sold a single book and other PA authors have been released from their contract with PA in recent months.
So you have 200 authors contributing to this book. Let us assume that this is one of PA's bigger books, so it retails for $25. Let us also assume $5.50 of this is royalty. If each contributing author convinces one friend or relative to buy a copy, then we are looking at $1,100 in royalties. That's a dime for every PA author!