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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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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"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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Okay, so your thesis is explicitly that the writers currently getting paid should not get paid? The focus should be on the benefit the end of copyright will have on the reader/consumer and compensation for the producer is not your concern?
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