• qyron
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    1 day ago

    I call that bullshit. Smells like ghost writers from afar.

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      Your argument is that she’s paying ghost writers so that she can maintain her lucrative can’t-afford-to-live-in-the-US lifestyle?

      Is this comments section an influx of publishing industry shills or something? The logic of some of these comments is fully bonkers.

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        My argument resides that at some point an author becomes a brand and it is cheaper and more effective for a publisher to have ghost writters churning out more material to make more cash, while paying a pittance in royalties to the author to keep them stringed, than waiting for the author to put forward another work.

        Am I an industry shill? Hardly. An author will get pennies on the dolllar for every book sold, while the publishers make fortunes out of their work. That’s plain theft.