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mcl · 02-04-2010, 02:57 PM

The more I see the particularly poor attitude coming from authors, the more I'm tempted to go with the second option, and/or used books.

And don't try to feed me some line about how, if I do that, ultimately all published works will disappear. You know it's not true, and so do I.

But I'm getting mighty tired of seeing authors time and again parrot what seems to be the party line: "Macmillan's looking out for our best interests! Buy our books, or we'll immediately and spontaneously starve/freeze/explode/be eaten by opossum!"

Authors chose to become authors. If you can't make a living doing it, don't quit your day job. Or learn to negotiate better terms.

02-04-2010, 02:57 PM	#63
mcl Connoisseur Posts: 99 Karma: 608 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Kindle K2i	The more I see the particularly poor attitude coming from authors, the more I'm tempted to go with the second option, and/or used books. And don't try to feed me some line about how, if I do that, ultimately all published works will disappear. You know it's not true, and so do I. But I'm getting mighty tired of seeing authors time and again parrot what seems to be the party line: "Macmillan's looking out for our best interests! Buy our books, or we'll immediately and spontaneously starve/freeze/explode/be eaten by opossum!" Authors chose to become authors. If you can't make a living doing it, don't quit your day job. Or learn to negotiate better terms.