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This has little or nothing to do with any supposed reduction in book sales the Internet Archive or any other library, dead-tree or bittorrent, has caused, and q
by a1369209993 6y ago
This has little or nothing to do with any supposed reduction in book sales the Internet Archive or any other library, dead-tree or bittorrent, has caused, and quite a lot to do with publishers screwing authors out of royalties for books they do sell. I have no sympathy any author too stupid to realize that publishers are to blame for their still needing a day job after (for example of Myke Cole) twelve books, two TV shows, and a comic series.
- ben_w 6y agoIf piracy had zero or positive impact, a genuinely greedy publisher wouldn’t care or would actively encourage it. When I do finally finish this thing and try to get it published, I will go though a normal publisher, because I like listening to the advice of people who’ve been though things before: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/03/why-i-dont-self-publish.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/03/why-i-d... Also, no: most authors need day jobs because sales are a generally power-law distributions.