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"
He *was* one of the people siding with the Big 6 against Amazon in 2014, and I'm pretty sure a lot of people who jumped on him were residually pissed at him over that But that clearly wasn't about "piracy", it was about (legal) downward pricing pressure in general
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Like the fact that this isn't about piracy per se is what's telling to me about this debate, that people were FURIOUSLY on Amazon's side even though they weren't relaxing copyright in any sense at all, just lowering prices for the consumer
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I'm one of the people who thinks that "high prices, high wages" makes a better society than "low prices, low wages" (and the utopian "low prices, high wages" unfortunately never really happens)
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