Um... I've been reading Wendig's blog for years and he's incredibly helpful to young unpublished authors, makes it a point to often spotlight the work of upcoming authors from underrepresented groups and is extremely vocal about anti-author publishing shenanigans.
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Replying to @LorelaiMerri @Trashy_In_Pink
He didn't "start a movement" in any sense All the major author trade unions have been against the Internet Archive's Controlled Digital Lending concept for years, and have put out detailed statements to that effect
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Replying to @LorelaiMerri @arthur_affect
Fair enough, but if you think authors and author-led unions are "fucking stupid" then please don't use us as a sword for your personal benefit. You can take any activist route you want of course, but you're not doing it for me, for art, or for the minority authors on my TL.
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Replying to @LorelaiMerri @arthur_affect
I DEFINITELY think there's room for nuanced discussion there and there's no time like the present to truly consider our system, burn it down and rebuild. I also think using ableist slurs, misgendering people and swearing at the minority authors this is ostensibly for doesn't help
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Replying to @Trashy_In_Pink @LorelaiMerri
Also it's not like self-published authors have no stake in this or are united in thinking piracy has no impact on them (there are quite a few self-pubbers who very strongly believe the opposite)
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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
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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
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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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The same reasons why a big centralized free repository is extremely useful for what academics are trying to do also make it very bad for what a commercial fiction writer is trying to do (stand out from the crowd, generate a fanbase, get paid)
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