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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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
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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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Because I genuinely do not think it is the existence of traditional publishing that makes things hard for self-publishers
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And as long as we're not yet living in post-capitalist utopia, the evidence is that the brave new world of online self-publishing is much *worse* in terms of inequality
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The new models for how to compensate labor that don't depend on "keeping information under lock and key" seem far, far more prone to rewarding just a tiny elite of superstars and just leaving everyone else with literally nothing
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It's not the exact same thing, the Gini coefficient in trad publishing is much lower It's gotten worse over time, yes, as the Internet has taken its toll, but the vast majority of middle-class creative incomes still come through trad publishing
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