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Publishers do a have a legitimate business, since they provide many services to authors. Heck, they even provide useful services to readers since the imprint i
by II2II 6y ago
Publishers do a have a legitimate business, since they provide many services to authors. Heck, they even provide useful services to readers since the imprint is usually a good way to filter for better quality publications.
That being said, I don't agree with how they have been handling digital sales or lending.
- Longlius 6y agoYes, they provide such useful services as underpaying authors, ensuring that authors get as little control over their creative output as possible, and bullying authors into changing their work to fit pet ideological crusades. Maybe smaller publishers still provide some semblance of service to the writers they work with, but the big publishers have been predatory entities for a long time.
- geofft 6y agoSure, but the abolition of copyright would also mean that individual authors do not have copyright over their works, even if they sidestep the publishers. (Which, to be fair, the commenter upthread admits - turn on showdead in your profile if you want to see it.) I am not sure that many authors who get mistreated by their publishers would feel like they're going to get paid better and have more control over their creative output if copyright goes away entirely.