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I must admit the biggest thing I took away from this is how disappointed I was at the sheer refusal from some authors to fact check, read up or even visit the s

I must admit the biggest thing I took away from this is how disappointed I was at the sheer refusal from some authors to fact check, read up or even visit the site. One apologised on Facebook as they joined the angry mass without understanding the site at all, and now they do they retracted their previous complaint. EULAs are long unwieldily things, but if you're publishing digitally understand what terms you agreed too before raging out at some slight.

c0ur7n3y 14y ago
I think the reason for that is that this site became something these authors could focus their anger and fear towards. Why look into it and risk having to give up that catharsis?
- brewdad 14y ago
  IMO, catharsis ends once the lawyers get involve and start sending out C&Ds.
smashing 14y ago
The fact is that authors just don't understand that they are needed less. There is a transformation from printing on dead trees to the freedom that the Internet gives people without copy restrictions. Its cheaper to build a computer network than it is too print a book in many places!
- tzs 14y ago
  > The fact is that authors just don't understand that they are needed less Did you perhaps mean to say publisher, rather than author?
- nicholassmith 14y ago
  I must admit I'm a big fan of autogenerated novellas. But I'm going to guess you actually mean publishers not authors, which is at the moment still not true for several reasons.
Turing_Machine 14y ago
In this case, though, it's quite simple. When you publish a book in the KDP portal (which I'm guessing most of these indie authors did) there's a clearly labeled checkbox: "Enable lending for this book". You don't need to read the EULA. Amazon actually gives you a better deal if you enable lending (70% royalty compared to 30% on outright sales, and if you make the book an Amazon exclusive, you even get paid something when a reader lends the book).

c0ur7n3y 14y ago

I think the reason for that is that this site became something these authors could focus their anger and fear towards. Why look into it and risk having to give up that catharsis?

brewdad 14y ago
IMO, catharsis ends once the lawyers get involve and start sending out C&Ds.

smashing 14y ago

The fact is that authors just don't understand that they are needed less. There is a transformation from printing on dead trees to the freedom that the Internet gives people without copy restrictions. Its cheaper to build a computer network than it is too print a book in many places!

tzs 14y ago
> The fact is that authors just don't understand that they are needed less Did you perhaps mean to say publisher, rather than author?
nicholassmith 14y ago
I must admit I'm a big fan of autogenerated novellas. But I'm going to guess you actually mean publishers not authors, which is at the moment still not true for several reasons.

Turing_Machine 14y ago

In this case, though, it's quite simple. When you publish a book in the KDP portal (which I'm guessing most of these indie authors did) there's a clearly labeled checkbox: "Enable lending for this book". You don't need to read the EULA. Amazon actually gives you a better deal if you enable lending (70% royalty compared to 30% on outright sales, and if you make the book an Amazon exclusive, you even get paid something when a reader lends the book).