#anyone else? no. they get paid pennies per book sold. even big name authors can't afford to write full time because of thieves

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#another one of my writer friends posting about book piracy this morning #it's heartbreaking; these authors trying to make a living doing what they love and selfish morons online ruin everything #look. if you pirate textbooks I'm not going to judge you. textbook publishing is a scam #if you pirate movies the actors and directors and crew have already been paid #the only people you're hurting are execs and possibly the chances of other films from that director or whatever #because the profit margins determine future output #but when you pirate a normal reading book #and ESPECIALLY a novel #you are directly hurting the author #the only authors that get paid in advance for their work are like... Stephen King. International bestsellers who got their start #in the 70s and 80s when the industry was different #anyone else? no. they get paid pennies per book sold. even big name authors can't afford to write full time because of thieves #and heaven help the indies #i have friends who literally make NEGATIVE profit because of legal piracy #where people buy a book read it and then return it #that return comes out of the author's payment from Amazon #most indies make pennies anyway so a negative paycheck is a huge blow #add to that insult the injury of finding your work uploaded to a piracy website and... #frankly it's amazing anyone tries to publish anything anymore #the fact that people defend this behavior is insane #'oh but i can't afford to buy books' ever heard of a library? of a used bookstore? of PaperbackSwap? #'the book i want isn't available!' then get off your tush and talk to your librarian #most libraries have a book request form #heck most libraries and do interlibrary loan. borrow it from somewhere else #you might have to wait a few days (le gasp) but the big difference is #THE AUTHOR GOT PAID FOR THE CONTENT YOU ARE ENJOYING #i see piracy guides come across my dash sometimes and i just--- #stop. respect authors. respect creators. #if you don't then i hope someday you create something and someone steals it from you. because you'll have no room to complain #redwintertalks