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“It's nice to think my ideas can still entertain and challenge people after I'm gone, but I would like the royalties for them while I'm alive.”

Ideas Recognition Idea After Death Piracy Remuneration Copyright Infringement Royalties Getting Paid Posthumous Modern Writer

Author:Stewart Stafford

“Nothing is a waste of time if you get paid for it.”

Dancing With The Devil Royalties

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“Book authors are in high demand for speaking engagements and appearances; they are the new ‘celebrity’ and celebrities gain access. Authors not only make money from royalties or book advances but from their keynotes, presentations and strategically branded product lines. This includes entrepreneurial ideas for you to extend yourself beyond just writing and prepares you to add speaking and consulting to your revenue stream. You have to begin to look outside book sales and towards the speaking market. There are radio, interviews, news, television, small channel television keynotes, lectures, seminars and workshops. These types of events have the possibility to be much more lucrative than just selling books. In essence, the book builds and brands you in the public eye. It gives you credibility and the opportunity to be more than you are. It enables you to now be a voice, a teacher, a leader, an expert - after all, you wrote the book on it!”

Branding Celebrity Passive Income Book Power Royalties Authors Are In Demand

Book:Book Power: A Platform for Writing, Branding, Positioning & Publishing

Source: Book Power: A Platform for Writing, Branding, Positioning & Publishing

“Had J.D. Salinger known who John Hinckley and mark David Chapman were before they bought his books or took them out of the library? Would it have mattered if he had? Had he returned the royalties he received from those purchases?”

Book:The Salinger Contract

Source: The Salinger Contract

“He finds the idea of someone wanting to be paid as well as published a particularly repulsive, almost obscene form of literary pretension.”

Book:Os Espiões

Source: Os Espiões

“We Independents plow a huge field to reap half a peanut" in explanation as to Independent songwriters & publishers rarely receiving deserved royalties.”

Royalties Independent Songwriters

Book:An Unstoppable Survivor

Source: An Unstoppable Survivor

“i thought to myself well if there's a sucker out there it may as well be me for believing this jerk would stay in business if he paid all his writers like he was going to pay me. i mean he must not have even realized that poetry doesn't sell!”

Poetry Writers Naive Royalties

Book:Dancing with the Lights Out

Source: Dancing with the Lights Out

“The real piracy wasn’t downloads. It was contracts.”

Contracts Ownership Music Industry Piracy Royalties

Author:Jason “Johnny Suede” Colapietro