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What about the author though? You didn't mention them at all.
by ludston 3y ago
What about the author though? You didn't mention them at all.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y ago"I would like to reward the authors" That doesn't count as a mention?
- alwayslikethis 3y agoIt would be great if authors accepted donations. Then pirates can choose to pay.
- dirtyid 3y agoWonder if that gets them in trouble with publishers. Maybe creator should have a newsletter (however low effort) with a donation link at the bottom.
- Qwertious 3y agoStrictly speaking, there's nothing stopping anyone from making a website listing authors of books and how to pay them. And strictly speaking, there's nothing stopping pirate sites from taking said website and embedding the relevant author donation info next to a torrent/DL of the book they wrote. Publishers wouldn't be able to take down the list website, as it's perfectly legal to send authors money. Publishers wouldn't be able to take down the pirate sites either, because they've already been trying for decades and can't win the whack-a-mole.
- moffkalast 3y agoIdk they're getting pretty good at the whack-a-mole thing, zlibrary is hanging on by a thread at this point.
- marcus_holmes 3y agoAwesome idea. I may work on this.
- indigochill 3y agoI like Peter Watts' approach with Blindsight. He directly provides a variety of DRM-free (including plain old HTML!) versions of it and has licensed it under Creative Commons, and he accepts donations to the "Niblet Memorial Kibble Fund": https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm I had thought he decided to distribute this way specifically as a response to how much publishers kept from commercial sales, but I can't seem to dredge up a source confirming that at the moment.
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoI mean it doesn't sound like you are doing anything to do what you say you would like to do though? Generally if I say I would like to do something but I can't be bothered it's because I don't actually care about it at all and I'm just saying that as part of my complicated get away routine. I believe what you probably really mean is you would be ok with rewarding the authors if it was convenient and met your requirements. Then you wouldn't pirate and the author would be paid as part of your purchasing in the way you wanted. on edit: sorry, I see it wasn't you that made the original comment, and you were just pointing it out.
- marcus_holmes 3y agoThe author chooses how to publish their book. If they choose a publisher who disrespects their customers, then that's on them. There are plenty of authors choosing to publish their work DRM-free.
- Llamamoe 3y agoThey don't always have that choice, or awareness of the consumer-side problems of DRM-protected content.
- hilbert42 3y agoExactly.
- redeeman 3y agoI can see how they may not have awareness, but in what way do they not have the choice?
- Llamamoe 3y agoWhat publisher you pick has implications for marketing, the share you receive, you're also not guaranteed to be accepted by your first choice.
- rchaud 3y agoThat seems like a pretty mild trade-off. They're hardly going to be at the mercy of pirates on the basis of which publisher they pick. Most authors want to write and be recognized, so they get picked up for more writing contracts. Piracy is really the publisher's problem.