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Let the people read! Of course publishers want to turn books into a subscription service. Fuck that. Author remuneration is possible without further entrenchi
by ikesau 4y ago
Let the people read!
Of course publishers want to turn books into a subscription service. Fuck that.
Author remuneration is possible without further entrenching the absurd idea that some corporate entity can claw back information put into the world.
- nine_k 4y agoAs an author, would you sell your book via your website, or maybe even via Amazon, as a DRM-free file? If you would, what, it your opinion, holds back other authors from doing the same?
- beej71 4y agoI give my stuff away for free (and sell paper copies for profit). Publishers really help with marketing, editing, typesetting, cover design, fronting cash, and other things, which is why people go with them. But they also tend to take the rights to the book, and I didn't want that for my books. As such, I make about $100/year in donations, and paper book sales are in the hundreds of dollars per month range. My day job subsidizes this work. And all books are DRM-free once you remove the DRM from them (which is trivial to do). I try to make a product people want to pay for, not one they have to pay for. But that's just me. Jack London famously hated writing and only did it to support his lifestyle.
- wolverine876 4y ago> Of course publishers want to turn books into a subscription service. Isn't IA offering the same, only differing in that it's not for profit? IA is not offering ownership.