I reach the same conclusion after several publishers reached out to do The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit as a book.
Conversations went something like this, "So I give you my images, story, writing, hundreds of hours and get pittance royalties only after you recover your expenses?"
Barring the unlikely event of a blockbuster everything I calculated left me earning sub-mimimum wages while went on with their $100K+ jobs.
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