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On top of all this, the artist would have to put up the money to manufacture the records. And if the stores didn’t sell them, they’d be returned to the artist, who’d lose the manufacturing costs, plus the freight costs in both directions.

Publishers are responsible for squeezing all the revenue they can out of an author’s book. All publishers are expected to be set up to handle the principal publication of the book as a whole, often called “volume rights,” and for that the royalties are paid on sales according to the contract. But there are other ways to get revenue that depend on a

Listen again! Let me say this one more time: BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL in picking your business manager. More careful than you are with anyone else on your team. This is the person who can make sure you have a cozy old age, or leave you playing supermarket openings in your fifties.