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by yencabulator 1365 days ago
> Books also don't have the secondary income stream of live performance

Funny, I was just thinking of this.

In this current world of copyright, the secondary income stream for books seems to be selling rights to make movies & television shows for the larger audience.

Only works for bestsellers, but that's true of anything in book finances; only a small handful of bestsellers make money.