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"pjericksim;c-17123078" wrote:

3. With GTW, I could store my manuscript at my public lot, right?

Based upon my most recent experience. (Your experience may vary.) This information applies to: 1) freelance authors and 2) the Expansion Pack, "Get To Work" , where you can establish a retail lot and sell stuff... specifically original content as related to books / manuscripts:
a.) As explained in an earlier post, it makes sense to make copies of the original manuscript (prior to selling it to the publisher) and retaining at least one copy. Sell the original manuscript for the cash & ongoing royalties.
b.) Place the copy of your manuscript at your retail store in a retail display bookshelf or other display shelving. The book, when appropriately placed on a display shelf (not a regular household bookshelf) will automatically position itself in a display position.

If the book you generated and the retail lot are in the same game, when a cursor hovers over the displayed book, the copy of the manuscript will indicate: the title, the author and your description of the book, with a disclamer at the end of the description that this is a copy of the original and cannot be sold to a publisher.

If you place the manuscript on a lot that you transfer through the galleries, when you download the lot from the galleries, the book on display will retain the title and the synopsis but the name of the author will be scrubbed and it will indicate "reference." There will be no indication that the book is a copy.

(This is something I didn't expect...) When you select a manuscript and make a copy, you are charged a fee depending upon the quality of the original manuscript. When you set a book for sale on a GTW lot, the cost of restocking a sold manuscript is "1"!
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My apologies for having gone off topic. Thanks for your patience. Have fun in your game,

Peter.