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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 897545" data-attributes="member: 1288">Huh.  They do seem to have changed their policies, since both their flash page and their e-mails with me contradict that material.  As I said, I've been told in so many words that they're not a vanity press, and I explained above why I don't believe they'd have anything to gain by lying about that.Now, I do agree that I'm not entirely sanguine about the notion of 25% of net with no advance.  That said, I haven't seen the contract yet, so I don't know the details on that arrangement.  I've seen enough, however, and spoken to them enough, that I'm not prepared to write them off.  I'm willing to go so far as submitting materials (in fact, I've already done so).  If they like what they see, and if we reach the point of looking over contracts, I'll decide at the time--based on their answers to questions on matters such as this--whether I wish to go ahead with it.Believe me, just like you don't mean to be relentlessly negative, I don't mean to sound unbearably optimistic.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I have no intention of signing a contract that I haven't fully read, questioned, and understood.  I just don't see any reason not to at least see if I can get to that point.</blockquote>

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