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| ▲ | AIPedant 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Information and well-crafted sentences are available on the Language Tree, easily plucked by anyone at zero cost. It's greedy for those so-called novelists and subject matter experts to expect a living wage. "Information wants to be free," which means that any cost of producing that information can be abstracted away due to ideological inconvenience. | | |
| ▲ | Vektorceraptor 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Then show me the easily available "information on the langauge tree" to solve the unsolved problems in science.
Btw. books are not mere information, they are also products of effort and sacrifice and intentions. They are also embedded in an economic system of paper, books, ink, transport and what not producers. So you are either poor or too lazy to buy a book from the store. But this doesn't justify mind theft or it's distribution. | | |
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| ▲ | slt2021 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | they already work almost for free, since all the money goes to the publisher and retailer. out of $20 book, the authors earn about $1 - $1.5, for e-books its about $1.7 - $2 The value from book sales goes to retailer and publisher: two large corporations, and in case of amazon - a single big corporation so please cry me a river about amazon's lost profits earned at the back of the book authors | | |
| ▲ | Aerroon 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Governments. You forgot governments. They take the bulk of the money, especially in Europe. ~25% VAT and then the publishers and retailers take their cut. The government takes another 40% in income and payroll taxes from that. The leftovers are what the author gets. Buying from yourself is probably the biggest markup you can get. | | |
| ▲ | slt2021 3 days ago | parent [-] | | yes, if you add VAT and remove taxes from authors' incomes, it becomes even more laughable. its really might be better to publish for free and create a buy me a coffee |
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| ▲ | Vektorceraptor 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is a problem of publishers and retailers, and not a justification for distribution of mind theft. | | |
| ▲ | slt2021 2 days ago | parent [-] | | yes, exactly, annas-archive is the modern robin-hood that frees up the knowledge. it is not a theft, because people using annas-archive were not going to buy a book in the first place and publishers incomes didnt drop due to annas-archive |
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| ▲ | akkad33 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Then what's the economic interest for writing a book | | |
| ▲ | kelnos 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Very little. Aside from high-profile/best-selling authors who do make a decent amount of money, the vast majority of writers do it because they love doing it, not because they expect to become rich. | | |
| ▲ | akkad33 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Now you can publish independently through Kindle or through learnpub. Would that not cut out the intermediary fees? | | |
| ▲ | slt2021 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | not by much, kindle authors earn 70% royalty only if they price the book between $3-$10. outside that range they get 35% royalty so it is marginally better, but overall I cannot say that anyone got rich off of slaving away for Amazon Kindle, Inc |
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