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Thomas: I remember being on a call with a major publisher back then. It's a literary agent. And the marketing person was trying to convince the author to spend basically her entire advance on a book trailer.

And I knew that book trailers didn't drive sales. There's a reason Amazon does not allow authors to embed them on books, because they actually hurt sales. And I was like, don't do that because now you're working completely for free for the publishing house where you don't get a single penny from them.

They gave you some money and they're asking you to give it a right back to them. And it's, pretty abusive actually. one of the services that literary agents do is that they protect authors from getting beat up too much by their traditional publishers.