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Alfie Award-Winning Author/Commentator She/Her Nonfiction: http://alexandraerin.substack.com  Fiction: http://patreon.com/alexandraerin  Query: blueauthor@alexandraerin.com

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    1. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 29 Mar 2020

      But don't do it for fear of the corporations. Do it for love of the art and the artists. If you love reading enough to care about availability of books, then you should love authors. Writing a book is not just having an idea once and then getting paid for it forever.

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    2. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 29 Mar 2020

      If an author spends a year or more on a book, writing it basically as a full-time job (possibly while working other jobs)... it can take years of sales for that book to pay off, for the labor to pay for itself.

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    3. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 29 Mar 2020

      I have seen someone on this site today argue that once the book exists, trying to get paid for it is "rent-seeking" (a term that applies to someone trying to get paid for exploiting something they put no labor into, like commanding a toll for crossing a stream).

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    4. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 29 Mar 2020

      But most authors don't get a giant lump-sum payment when they "sell the book". And the payment they do get, giant or not, is called "an advance" because it's an advance on expected royalties from sales. The book still has to sell to pay out!

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    5. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 29 Mar 2020

      If a book that doesn't make back its advance... technically the publisher can claw the advance back from the author. That doesn't always happen, but also that's how you kill the next book deal. An advance is a bet the publisher makes that the sales will happen.

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    6. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 29 Mar 2020

      The money people pay for books, the money that libraries pay for books... those are what pay the author back, slowly and over time, for the months or years of labor that went into the book.

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    7. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 29 Mar 2020

      "But Alexandra, why are you on the tradpub authors' side when you don't do it that way? You let people read your work for free and then see if they want to pay for it. Isn't that the same as what piracy sites do?' I make choices about what to do with my labor. Marketing choices.

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    8. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 29 Mar 2020

      Me putting my work out there under my name with links to where people can pay me for it is a marketing decision I make, as an informed decision based on what I know about my work, my audience, and the marketplace. It's a good strategy for me.

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    9. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 29 Mar 2020

      But like anything, it's got its trade-offs and I wouldn't want to nuke the other ways of doing things just because I've got something else that works for me.

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    10. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 29 Mar 2020

      TL;DR - no one in literary Twitter is labeling the Internet Archive as a whole "a piracy site". The objection is to them using the coronavirus crisis to push the boundaries of fair use to a point where one can distribute a whole book without any license.

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      Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 29 Mar 2020

      ...okay, and I'm getting that a lot of people don't like the idea of copyrights period. Information Wants To Be Free and all that. But your revolution needs an order of operations. If you kill the copyright first, while we're all still toiling under capitalism, you hurt workers.

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        2. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 29 Mar 2020

          I'm going to leave this link here and mute the thread. The Open Library doesn't have a license to lend books, it has a legal theory that says it can, based on specific fair use justifications that are probably more narrow than it used them for before.https://the-digital-reader.com/2020/03/28/authors-protest-internet-archive-pirating-their-books/ …

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        3. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 29 Mar 2020

          I'm not going to sit here and argue. I've said my say in my space. If you disagree you're free to do the same in yours. I didn't @ anyone with my opinion, feel free to not @ me with yours. Don't expect a response if you do.

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        1. Chrisd‏ @chrisdabaker 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @AlexandraErin

          It's such a huge flaw on the left so distractable. Can you please make us a revolutionary's "order of operations" poster. We need lists.

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        1. josh T.‏ @dshwa76 29 Mar 2020
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          Their "revolution" is only about making things better for themselves and getting rid of things that they don't like. Unreliable allies at best, bimb throwers at worst.

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        1. Liz Roscher‏Verified account @lizroscher 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @AlexandraErin

          Your whole thread is so informative, but this tweet is extremely well-written and distills so much information and thought into just a handful of words. <3

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        2. Amanda McCracken  🌬 ❄ ❄ ❄‏ @frostfire3713 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @AlexandraErin

          Your favorite authors could just decide not to write anymore. Then where will you people be? Writing is literally blood, sweat and tears creating something from nothing. It can be as bad as childbirth. Then for you to take that "child" and just exhibit it for free? That's cruel.

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        3. ꙮMantis Space Marine‏ @emccoy_writer 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @frostfire3713 @AmandaMccrack12 @AlexandraErin

          Having had a child cut from my body, it's not "as bad" as childbirth. It involves a different kind of emotional work, as well as time learning the craft (albeit often "on the job"). It DOES drain the mind & energy a bit like a newborn who doesn't sleep even 6 hrs a night, true!

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        2. Roma Panganiban‏ @romapancake 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @AlexandraErin

          "Your revolution needs an order of operations" is brilliant phrasing that addresses a lot of the kind of reactionary anti-capitalism that's been spreading lately, sans critical analysis of the systems that need to end before new ones can begin. Thanks for that.

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        1. joemuckalutz‏ @joemuckalutz 29 Mar 2020
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          "Your revolution needs an order of operations" is amazing and I can’t stop thinking about it.

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