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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Replying to @LorelaiMerri @arthur_affect
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."
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Making this specific man the poster boy for everything wrong with the publishing industry is... not it.
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Replying to @Trashy_In_Pink @LorelaiMerri
And it's really unclear why this specific conflict - maximizing access vs trying to preserve a distribution model with a strong price floor - has anything to do with "publishers vs authors"
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Like the responses to working authors seem to veer wildly between "You're a privileged fuck for making whatever amount you make and you should make the same pittance I do" and "You're a stupid brainwashed fuck and if you ditched your publisher you'd have 10x the money"
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I prefer the former because it's at least an honest opinion that doesn't assume facts not in evidence It's the disingenuous "I'm trying to HELP you, I'm trying to FREE you from your abusive paymasters" stuff that annoys me
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Replying to @LorelaiMerri @Trashy_In_Pink
The publishers are in fact paying them, just not paying them (in your view) enough If the publishers ceased to exist, they have reason to think that this would lead to them instead being paid nothing
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