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And promising to pay the artist. A lot of people actually want to financially support the creators of things they enjoy.
by Asooka 9y ago
And promising to pay the artist. A lot of people actually want to financially support the creators of things they enjoy.
- teddyh 9y agoThat is actually solved separately with things like Patreon, etc.
- lottin 9y agoPaying the middleman in the hope that they in turn will pay the artist is a little naive though.
- ktta 9y agoI imagine many would also like to show support towards the author of the paper. But the money paid for the paper pretty much only goes to the publisher. Weirdly, sometimes the author has to pay the publisher to get published. And then the publisher again gets money from people buying the paper! All in the name of getting published in a 'respectable' journal.
- davidgerard 9y agoYep. It's trivial to download the preview files on Bandcamp - view source, look for the URLs starting popplers5.bandcamp.com - but nobody does, because you'd have to be a bit of a dick. And Bandcamp takes only 15% at most, the rest is passed straight to the artist/label.