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Authors and editors should be able to live from their work and libgen et al should exist as well. I don't think it's so incomprehensible to imagine that reality
by lyu07282 2y ago
Authors and editors should be able to live from their work and libgen et al should exist as well. I don't think it's so incomprehensible to imagine that reality because we are living that reality right now. We can also save a lot of money if we get rid of publishers. People will always buy physical books that will be enough to sustain authors, on top of that we can subsidize from taxes. You have to remember that not everyone is a liberal.
- daedrdev 2y agoThe vast majority of authors are not popular enough to live on their works. Publishers actually loose money publishing vast majority of their books, meaning most authors gain value from the publisher since the publisher clearly is loosing money to the author.
- fsflover 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701785 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701785