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
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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"If you pirated one of my books and feel bad about it and want to support me, buy a copy in hardcover The best way to support me is to support my publisher"
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