Jfc I really hate how "how dare professional authors ask for a living wage and not getting their labor pirated by people or treated as a cheap pastime" is becoming left dogma.
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Replying to @loudpenitent
The goalposts of this conversation continually and seemingly deliberately move away from "publishing needs to change so writers can eat" to "I, a writer you love, have had my lunch SNATCHED!" but it's never their publisher or wider industry issues that did the snatching.
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Replying to @thelionmachine @loudpenitent
Because we could write contracts where you get paid for illegal copies modeled off MP3s and the way the UK pays for library checkouts (library contracts are part of the problem) but we don't want to discuss the myriad issues with the royalty+sales system as it exists.
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Replying to @thelionmachine
"We" can't do shit. We have only the power we wield as consumers.
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Replying to @loudpenitent
Sorry, I'm in this convo as an author and freelancer in the writer's union, not only as a reader.
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Replying to @thelionmachine
I don't think that it is responsible or fair to proclaim that authors do not have a right to demand a fair return for the work of their hands and minds.
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Replying to @loudpenitent
I agree! I also think publishing is rigged in a way where piracy is an outsized boogieman as why authors get paid pennies, instead of discussing how publishers exploit authors out of said living wages. Piracy is wrong but getting paid 5% royalties is why you even notice.
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Piracy is much more proportionally harmful to anyone trying to make money as a self-published author making 100% royalties
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