An anonymous patron would like to share with us this article from Salon.com; however, it requires a paid subscription to read it. For those that can, go for it. For the rest of us, here’s a snippet from the free part:
“By the end of this story I will have broken the most sacred rules of modern authordom. I’ll tell you how much my publishers have paid me for the books I’ve written. I’ll tell you how many copies each of those books has sold. I’ll share with you some of the secrets, lies and euphemisms told to me by my publishers, editors, publicists and agents in their efforts to comfort, pacify and motivate me, and I’ll share some of the salient facts that make those secrets, lies and euphemisms such common industry currency.”
Salon article
For an extensive deconstruction of this article and links to many other blogs which commented on it, see http://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/
Paying for subscription via eyeball equity
For what it is worth, you can “pay” for a day’s access to this and other Salon articles by watching an interstitial advertisement. I usually open the ad in a new window/tab and go back to reading the several other news sites I have open. After a minute or two, the ad has played out and the full article is there, or at least a click or two away.