Quick way to judge whether publisher is taking real risk on you: advance>5*(Twitter following)*0.1*($2). Anything less is vanity pub
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Isn't that just advance > (Twitter following) * $1 ? Why all those extra numbers?
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. to make the relationship explicit. $2= Amazon royalty on $2.99 book, 0.1=conversion rate, 5 = multiplier across your channels
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I believes publishers should just charge for editorial and production services and get rather than supply royalties
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I'm really getting old. I actually did the calculation (times 5, then times 0.1 then times 2)... :-(
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