Dave,
Gotta agree with you about Exile, one of the great rock
albums.
But I've got a question about this $6 regardless of
page-count price that maybe someone in the biz can answer --
Does the author of a short book get the same compensation as
the author of a long book? Now I know there are all sorts of
variables like reputation and past sales, but for the sake of
argument, let's say we are talking about two equally popular
mid-list authors.
I'm guessing the book biz is like most other pop culture
industries in that the actual physical cost of production
(how many trees have to be pulped for the book) is one of the
smallest and most consistent costs in the grand bookkeeping
scheme, falling way behind promotion, company profits and, if
there's anything left over, paying the author.
Anyone know?
Mark
-- # To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to majordomo@icomm.ca. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 03 Mar 2000 EST