[m_eiman]

From the article: "More and more, ancillary revenue sources will reduce the reliance on book sales."

What -would- the ancillary revenue sources be for writers?

I doubt they can do what the rock stars are doing and sell ten of thousands of tickets for $50 for people to come listen to them reading their books..

Off the top of my head I can't think of anything that would scale enough to be worthwile.

[bitmason]

Yeah, I've heard this one before. A few authors do have decent speaking gigs (often for keynotes and things like that) but they're the exception. And those who can make money this way are already doing it. The whole idea that there's some huge untapped pot of money in live performances (for reading, music, or whatever) is pretty silly.