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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Buxaroo Danger‏ @Trashy_In_Pink 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @Trashy_In_Pink @LorelaiMerri @arthur_affect

      Making this specific man the poster boy for everything wrong with the publishing industry is... not it.

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      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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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @LorelaiMerri @Trashy_In_Pink

      No, if the publisher goes out of business the author is fucked The authors are defensive of their publishers because they're pretty sure self-publishing is terrible and doesn't work

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @LorelaiMerri @Trashy_In_Pink

      Well, no, it pays a few authors tremendous riches and pays a lot more authors enough to at least live on You can say the same thing about self-publishing, too, but there the numbers are way more skewed

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LorelaiMerri @Trashy_In_Pink

      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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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LorelaiMerri @Trashy_In_Pink

      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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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LorelaiMerri @Trashy_In_Pink

      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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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LorelaiMerri @Trashy_In_Pink

      "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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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LorelaiMerri @Trashy_In_Pink

      Now, you can choose to think he's a brainwashed fool with Stockholm Syndrome, and back in the day I was a hardcore anti-copyright anti-publishing guy and argued with him on his blog about it, and losing that debate publicly and harshly was a big reason I changed my mind

      5:22 AM - 14 Jun 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @LorelaiMerri @Trashy_In_Pink

          So what's your thesis here, that nobody should be paid well, or that if the authors who are paid well go away (traditional publishing collapses) the money will then and only then start getting spread around

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