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Does It Pay to Be a Writer? Yes, But Not Well For Most

Small Business Labs

The Authors Guild’s 2018 Author Income Survey collected pay data from over 5,000 published book authors. The Authors Guild cites the growing dominance of Amazon, lower royalties and advances for all but best selling books and extremely low royalties paid on the increasing number of deeply discounted books and ebooks for the decline.  

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