Saw this breakdown of how advances work by Nate Powell and thought it was interesting. A few things not included for some non-fiction writers are: 1. paying for your own indexer. 2. paying someone to format your footnotes. 3. paying for other things that you need but that the publisher won't pay for
I’m also thinking about who does some of that labor in academic publishing (I personally handchecked the citations in a book for my bosses in undergrad while making $7.25/hr lol!)
