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April 22, 2011


Go, Read: Colleen Doran On Royalties In The E-Book Era

I always enjoy reading Colleen Doran on issues of career management, and this new one on royalties in the era of e-books and assumed standard measurements for book sales is as filled with as many nuggets of good advice and eye-popping anecdotes as is usual for the cartoonist on these matters. One thing I like about them is that she doesn't offer simplistic solutions or formulas -- she's a working creator, and as one I suspect she realizes that there are so many differences between contracts and individual creative experiences that to compare one, combined set to another borders on the foolhardy -- but rather girds her posts with some underlying principles: double-checking figures, looking into matters when something fails a smell test, and being persistent in getting the information you need and the satisfaction you require.
 
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