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		kccqzy on Aug 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I would rather see my books get pirated than this > It's very difficult to make money writing books these days. Go read some autobiographies or memoirs and you'll find well-to-do authors and their lavish lifestyles.

tornato7 on Aug 8, 2023 [–]

That's just survivorship bias. You only read about the very few authors that found success.

The Author's Guild survey of 5,000+ authors[1], the largest such survey ever conducted, found an author's median earnings is $6,080 per year.

1. https://authorsguild.org/news/authors-guild-survey-shows-dra...

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