Making this specific man the poster boy for everything wrong with the publishing industry is... not it.
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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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Like the responses to working authors seem to veer wildly between "You're a privileged fuck for making whatever amount you make and you should make the same pittance I do" and "You're a stupid brainwashed fuck and if you ditched your publisher you'd have 10x the money"
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I prefer the former because it's at least an honest opinion that doesn't assume facts not in evidence It's the disingenuous "I'm trying to HELP you, I'm trying to FREE you from your abusive paymasters" stuff that annoys me
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Replying to @LorelaiMerri @Trashy_In_Pink
The publishers are in fact paying them, just not paying them (in your view) enough If the publishers ceased to exist, they have reason to think that this would lead to them instead being paid nothing
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The logic is pretty clear and the Authors Guild among others have laid it out repeatedly and at length And it's not like they don't, in fact, demand to be paid more in royalties (that is also something the Authors Guild does regularly, it's their day-to-day business)
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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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And pretty much every working author commenting on this says this POV is very common and totally, absurdly ignorant
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