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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Replying to @LorelaiMerri @arthur_affect
This study doesn't control for libraries at all. Poland is one of the many EU countries (like mine) where authors and artists in general can apply for state stipends. That data doesn't carry over to the US system that cleanly.
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In the EU, if your income is exlusively from art and your art doesn't sell well, you still have a stipend to fall back on, libraries PAY for the books they carry, and there's options for other unemployment benefits.
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In the US, if your income is exclusively from art and your art doesn't sell well, YOU FUCKING DIE. Not saying the study is bad, it isn't. But it measures what it measures. And asking authors to throw themselves in the fire to fuel the engines of the revolution is, again, not it.
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To be fair the study doesn't measure revenue or income in general, it measures actual book sales But also to be fair, this is a small study of Polish-language books in Warsaw (the authors admit that the Polish language piracy "scene" looks very different from the US one)
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Replying to @LorelaiMerri @Trashy_In_Pink
Well, the most famous such anecdotal experiment is Maggie Stiefvater, which says the exact opposite (Stiefvater believes she saved her book series from being canceled by deliberately seeding a "piracy trap") https://m.facebook.com/notes/maggie-stiefvater-really-its-me/a-story-about-piracy/10154994010857036/ …
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