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Why do hardcover books retail for more than three times the cost of softcover books?
One thing I've noticed while browsing bookstores is that hardcover books tend to cost more than softcover ones.
Oftentimes a hardcover book that's five times the price of a paperback doesn't have ...
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How Much Can You Make From Writing a Book?
Obviously this question has a lot of different answers. I'm interested in the typical total profit that a writer might expect to see from:
A NYT Bestseller
A diet or self-help book that sells ...
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Can I self-publish, and how much would it cost?
With the barrier to having a publisher sign a new author seemingly high, especially without prior success or experience, are there any good author-funded alternatives out there to the repeated mailing ...
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How many words/hour should you aim for when writing your first draft?
A couple of axioms here. Firstly, most people agree that you should write your first draft quickly, without too much care on quality, and get something down on paper first. The real writing begins ...
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Is being paid by the word/page making American books longer?
I buy quite a lot of literature, mostly of academic nature. One thing I have noticed is that books by American authors always tend to be more explicit and contain more examples, regarding whatever ...
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How should I go with hiring an illustrator for a webcomic?
I want to start writing a webcomic, but as my talent as an illustrator is limited, I would only write the scripts and let to someone else the task to bring my script into picture. The only problem is ...
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Should freelance writers keep their online business separate from offline?
Freelance writers have a lot of opportunity to write online, but in some cases the rates are less than the same writing project might command offline. Assuming that there are enough advantages in ...
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If you get an advance do you ever have to give it back?
Do publishers give you an advance as some sort of earnest money for your manuscript? If your work doesn't sell very well do you have to give the advance back to them?
Do they ever just buy your work ...
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What are the advantages of incorporation for a writer?
I have heard of some (rather successful) writers incorporating - that is, creating a corporation of which they are the sole member. What are the potential advantages (or disadvantages) of doing this?
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Who pays for lyrics or quotes?
Occasionally, novels will include song lyrics in the story, or start out chapters with songs or quotes. In many cases, these lyrics or quotes are from copyrighted materials and would presumably ...
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Journal subscription secrecy
Robert Darnton, an accomplished scholar and important name in the open access movement, has a piece in the current New York Review of Books, The Library: Three Jeremiads, where he mentions that
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Best time to release a new novel?
More specifically, an e-book. I know some markets tend to have season changes which make a certain time of year more beneficial for sales, but I was wondering if anyone had noticed anything similar ...
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Why do authors usually put a reference section at the end of a book when they are not referenced throughout the entire book?
In the references list (usually at the end of a book), I've noticed that authors like to include references to other materials. However these materials are not so-called "referenced" or "linked" at ...
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How many queries do you send to editors a week?
How often should a writer be sending queries to establish a consistent flow of work? Currently I have a goal of trying to send out one query a day and at least two a week to places I've never worked ...
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What are “industry leading royalties”?
In the breakdown description I received from a publisher, they mention that they also pay industry leading royalties of ##%.
What does that mean?
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Translation of my book “Babymoves” into Japanese
I have written and self published the book 'babymoves' in 2002. It is now in its third edition. I sell it through my website. I have been approached by a Japanese woman, wanting to translate the book ...
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What are my chances of getting advance funding on a non-fiction book? [closed]
I'm toying with the idea of writing a (somewhat unconventional) popular science book. How easy would it be to get a publisher to fund the writing of it based on a sample chapter or two and an outline?
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