King of the Hill
3rd July 2016 | for Creatives | writing, publishing, David Baldacci, value the art |
"I've always maintained that no publisher should make more money off of a book than the writer does. They publish thousands of books a year—but this is the only one (or two) I'm going to do. This also applies to the Amazons of the world. We the writers should be king of the hill because we provide the content."
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