Talk:Jim Baen
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[edit] "Acrimonious Departures"?
I've removed the following sentences:
- However, Lackey, Moon and other authors have since acrimoniously left his company, citing complaints such as delayed payments and unprofessional treatment. Others of the forenamed authors vociferously dispute this version of events.
which were added in November 2005 by user 24.34.21.215 (talk • contribs). At least one of these assertions is obviously false; all of them controvene our (revised) WP:BLP policy because they are completely unsourced.
It is true that some successful Baen authors have moved to other publishers, but that is because they can get much bigger advances from other publishers. (Book publishers offer authors up-front payments, called advances, representing their royalties from a certain number of sales, then only pay further royalties if sales exceed that number. These days, successful authors tend to get advances corresponding to impossibly large numbers of sales, but no royalties after that. Baen Books offers small advances, but does pay sale-based royalties.) I don't have a citation for this; would anyone who does please add it to the article?
