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)
Charles Stross was at the center of this argument in 2014 with the Amazon vs Hachette lawsuit (with a lot of people coming after the publishers for "price-fixing") and he went into exhaustive detail about it
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Saying that personally he had in fact done various experiments with going the self-pub route and it sucked and he preferred working with a publisher because the books were better and he got paid more (15% of a high number is better than 100% of a low number)
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He specifically said that he frequently gets asked "I pirated a PDF of your book once, do you have a tipjar" and he refuses to put one up for this reason, to not give momentum to the "Support authors directly!" meme
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