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Hi again, Mr. Brown,

I followed the link, and you’re right. A company will help you illustrate your story, and then put it out in book form. This is their business — they do it for a living, and charge for the service, which seems excellent. That’s publishing, all right.

Real commercial publishing, however, is different. A publishing company purchases your book from you, paying you an advance amount of money for it. They publish it, and pay you an agreed-upon amount based on sales of your book. That’s called a royalty. That’s the kind of business that authors do.

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