Self-published authors have no one taking a cut of their income and their "wages" are even worse so I'm not sure where you're going with this
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spacetwinks
Like, you realize that indie creators also deal with piracy, and that it's a huge barrier to getting any indie business model off the ground
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Replying to @arthur_affect
maybe chuck wendig, definitely not an indie creator, should use some of his apparently rather large wealth to directly fund them instead of shitting his pants over the 7 or so loans of his books on the internet archive and giving coverage to destroying a priceless resource
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
fucking dipshit never heard of torrents and libgen and a billion other goddamn places for piracy. it's whack a mole. there will always be pirates. there are probably people pirating my 2 dollars a pop work, jeopardy boy, i don't fucking care. and i'm dirt poor.
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Replying to @spacetwinks
It's not about how many specific copies got shared from IA during this time period it's about IA trying to enshrine in law that there's no such thing as separate ebook rights, which are one of the main things publishers pay authors for
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Replying to @arthur_affect
have you seen how publishers treat ebook rights to 'proper' libraries you fucking idiot. they are ASTONISHINGLY expensive, and the publishers reap the vast majority of the profits and give almost jack to the writers.
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
libraries are far less likely to buy ebook copies than physical copies - which they can also acquire second hand thanks to donations, l m a o, and the author gets paid nothing that way - because the entire system for it is fucked thanks to greedy publishers.
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
these fuckers never fight the publishers, never ever. they talk about how poorly they're paid - and then LASH OUT at PIRATES. they don't fucking attack their publishers. they don't fucking come together to go after the people with actual money and leverage.
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Replying to @spacetwinks
Their publishers actually provide a service, yes, without which they would be unlikely to finish making a book people want to read Charles Stross talked about this at length during the Amazon vs Hachette court case in 2014
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spacetwinks
Amazon at the time was pushing the idea that this problem would solve itself because the publishers, being useless parasites, would be rapidly abandoned by authors who would take advantage of Amazon's self-publishing services to take control of their career and get rich
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