Like shit it's the publishers who are also being paid an insultingly low rate compared to what they were used to from every other licensee back in the day, it's the publishers who are in a panic over this
Well, more often you'll see authors saying "I got paid an advance that never earned out but it got my foot in the door and paid my bills for a while and if trad publishing didn't exist and I had to self-pub on Amazon I'd never even have started"
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There were lots and lots and lots of these takes the last go-round we had of people going "FUCK publishing I hope they implode" with the Amazon v Hachette "price-fixing" fight, as I mentioned
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Like I don't know how to explain to you that no one is actually SO stupid (while also being a completely selfish greedy asshole) that they just give away a ton of their money to a corporation for no reason
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funny that i've seen people self-publishing smutty erotica webcomics or patreon funded webcomics and online serials do better than these bunch of jokers and without losing their fucking dignity.
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They really don't, as a class, they do pretty poorly
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