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Old 8th Mar 2015, 16:19
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Whirlybird

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Dennis, if you use a traditional publisher you'll get 10% of royalties or less - and unless it becomes a bestseller that usually amounts to hardly anything. Why do you think most writers have other jobs? OTOH, if you self-publish using Amazon CreateSpace it costs you nothing except the price of a proof being sent from the US (and you can proof online if you want to save that), and you get most of the money from sales. So more for the scholarship. It's why a lot of writers are bypassing traditional publishers and doing their own.
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