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Thank you Emma, you are such a great source of information and clearly a very highly respected member of the forum. I will continue to pick your brains until you get fed up.

One day, I hope to become embroiled in the whole book writing rannygazoo, but before I do I'd like to understand more about how it all works. From the outside it seems that authors are being exploited, and my strong feeling is that book buyers are respectful of authors and would be surprised to learn where all the money goes, and happy for authors to receive a dignified cut of the price, even if it means a slightly higher retail price. But it needs a strong organisation to implement such a system, and an existing union of writers would seem to have a headstart in this respect.

It is through such a system that SoA could help all writers. As for how they could help new writers in other ways, I'm not sure, but I will give it some thought down the pub. The SoA is non-profit making. Would it be inconceivable for other parts of the process to be non-profit making too?

I also keep wondering why the book creation business does not follow the same path as that for the inventor of some other product. In this model an author would pitch his concept or finished book to an investor and together they would pay for all the mundane stuff and later distribute any profits according to shares. Why is there no Dragons Den for Books?

Hi! Sorry to revive an old issue... But I was one of those, as mentioned near the beginning of the thread, who was supposed to have a one-to-one with David Smith. I then waited patiently since the message that he would eventually get to everyone, it would just take time....