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> The kickstarters started because a loophole in their contract, and Brandon has very successfully exploited it as much as his characters exploit magic systems

Can you go into more detail on that? I know what you mean about exploiting magic systems, but I don't know anything about Sanderson's contract with Tor or what he did.

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I don’t remember the details, someone asked about Right of First Refusal from Tor during the Q&A live stream following the kickstarter announcement and he said something like a polite version of “we can sort of do what we want as long as we keep giving them the big series”

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