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The self-interest I can understand. The trying to project their self-interest onto others, though, is a really bad look. "Chers jurés, vous êtes écrivains." (D
by bunderbunder 8y ago
The self-interest I can understand. The trying to project their self-interest onto others, though, is a really bad look.
"Chers jurés, vous êtes écrivains." (Dear jurors, you are writers.) Indeed they are. Why on earth would they want to punish one of their own for doing what he needed to do to get his book published, after first being stonewalled by the publishers? The SLF is asking the hand that feeds it to bite itself.
- greenshackle2 8y agoWell, they are trying to avoid biting the other hand that feeds them, the traditional publishers. They are used to living in a world where publishers hold the power over authors. Alienating a few authors matters much less than alienating a few publishers. The rise of self-publishing, enabled by Amazon and the likes, would be to some extent a reversal of the existing power dynamics. But asking authors to join them in opposing this reversal of power is absurd, when it is clearly to authors' advantage, as we can see with Koskas. They can't expect authors to enjoy being at the mercy of publishers.