By Patrick Appel
Scott Douglas wonders how file-sharing will impact authors:
Musicians simply learned to tour if they wanted to make money, but what about authors? Maybe Stephanie Meyer can sellout the Nokia, but the average author can’t even get a handful of people to show up for a signing at Barnes & Noble. What happens when people start putting books up on bit torrent and publishers go from making $50,000 to $100,000 on a mid-list author to making less than $10,000—my guess is they cut back the number of authors they sign, which is already low.
My longstanding idea for putting advertisements in an eBook might start looking like a better idea to them.
The Dish 