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
But they obviously have reason to dislike "consumer advocates" who want the price to the customer to go down, or think sales figures don't matter at all
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The $27 a hardcover book costs is very close to the actual cost of making the book Very little of which is the cost of printing the physical copy, and relatively little of which is profit for the publisher's stockholders
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The anti-publishing stuff is unusually uninformed outsiders saying "The publisher is a useless parasite, the author's 15% royalty is the only money that really matters, and therefore the price point of all books should be at most $5 and piracy is justified"
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