who writes like this. my godpic.twitter.com/iGr3czDvPG
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The two founders who spearheaded the creation of the Authors Alliance, a direct competitor to the Authors Guild and one of the few author orgs to vocally side with IA here, are academics Academic publishing is like the polar opposite of indie/self-pub
Again, I think there's a lot of room for a nuanced discussion there. There is a problem! The problem is capitalism! But at this point I want to remind you that this whole thread started with someone going "hur dur this guy writes like a dork."
The authors and publishers who are strongly pro-IA are from the academic publishing side, where the stakes are almost the exact opposite of what they are for popular commercial publishing People have salaried day jobs to produce research, which is of immediate public interest
That's the exact opposite of, say, being a fantasy novelist - no one is going to hire me to be a tenured professor whose academic work naturally leads to the writing of a fantasy novel (JRR Tolkien notwithstanding) No one *needs* my particular novel, there are thousands like it
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