{"id":67234,"date":"2017-09-23T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/want-to-write-a-bestselling-novel-use-an-algorithm\/"},"modified":"2017-09-23T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T07:04:10","slug":"want-to-write-a-bestselling-novel-use-an-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/want-to-write-a-bestselling-novel-use-an-algorithm\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to write a bestselling novel? Use an algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIn the first of a four-part series on earning money, we look at the fast-track route to a chartbusting book \u2013 with a little help from a computerIt\u2019s the multimillion pound question that publishers and writers have been pondering for decades: what makes a bestseller? Attempting to write one could certainly pay off \u2013 the highest-paid author in the world, JK Rowling, has made $95m (\u00a370m) in the past year, and the 10 highest-paid authors in the world earned more than $310m between them, according to Forbes.But few authors will see that kind of cash. The average annual income for a UK writer is \u00a312,000, well below the minimum wage for a full-time job, a recent European commission report found. The Authors\u2019 Licensing and Collecting Society says professional authors have experienced a 29% drop in income in real terms since 2005, with the top 5% earning 42% of the money made by UK writers. And the bottom 50% struggle to generate even 7% of the total income. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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