The trick is to have those books keep making money long after the work is done. Some elderly writers I've done e-book conversions for are thrilled if a novel they wrote decades ago is paying a bill here and there. Before digital they would simply be out of print.
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Make sure you retain rights to EVERYTHING, including things nobody has thought of yet. One of the reasons there has never been a Ringworld movie or TV series is Niven allowed himself to get into a bad contractual agreement before he met Jerry Pournelle, who was very tough on that
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btw not sure but I think
@Delicious_Tacos means “the book is now earning what I would make at a minimum wage job, but I don’t actually have to work at it any more, except of course for shilling, which I hate” as opposed to the retroactive accounting you use for your past labor -
Wow! I'd love to earn THAT much! I guess I make ... $4 per hour?
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