Alex Clarke reports £174 in royalties for roughly three months of sales. He estimates that the hours required to write a book could instead produce about sixty to seventy videos, excluding Bruships. He credits his publishers with working hard and regards the low return as a problem with the economics of specialist books. A future traditionally published book would be a passion project for him, while self-published ebooks offer an alternative to test. That creates a difficulty for someone without a permanent university post, because books still help determine academic acceptance and promotion.
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Book royalties, writing time, and academic careers
Quarterly royalties of £174 are weighed against the time needed to write a book and the publications expected of an academic seeking university employment.