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Academics don't collect any royalties, they're paid prior to publication, not for selling copies of books.
by Caracas288 15d ago
Academics don't collect any royalties, they're paid prior to publication, not for selling copies of books.
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- saaaaaam 15d agoYes they do. As a kid our (admittedly not particularly lavish) family summer holiday was paid for each year by the modest royalties my father, an academic, received from a couple of academic textbooks he had authored.
- Caracas288 15d agoRight, that was worded too universally, but this is what I mean: royalties here are supplementary to a salary, not a wage in themselves. The research was funded before publication.
- jolmg 15d agoI'm using "research" broadly. People can privately research and publish under whatever arrangement they wish. Academics too. For those that sell their copyright, that would be valued based on projections of what the copyright buyer expects to sell. For those whose research was funded by the copyright buyer prior to writing because they didn't want to bear the risk or lacked the funds, that's going to be less, but everything stems from how the books are expected to sell.
- Caracas288 15d agoI think there are better funding models than the precarity of copyright-dependent publishing.
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