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Originally Posted by jerrywojo
I'm thinking agents should be the first to go. Would rather see 95% of net profits go to the authors. With all other entities,(excluding agents) sharing the remaining 5%.
Its time for the big publishers to move out of NY! just sayin,  |
I feel the same way. I would gladly send a check or paypal payment to the author instead of pay Amazon and other corporate giants who profit from the labor of others disproportionate to their own labor.....there is a word for this kind of behavior, its called USURY.....a mortal sin according to Christianity up until the industrial revolution when attitudes started to change. Credit cards who trick you with increasing interest are also usurers and are destined for the 10th layer of hell, according to christian dogma.....not everything about the Church has been so great, but that is one rule that I wish more right wing christians would pay attention to when they try to rationalize the anti-capitalist message of Jesus against their conservative politics. Hypocrisy and selective reading I guess.
I dont have a lot of sympathy for Amazon making a few billion less if they are still making a killing.....but I do want to support the artists and would like to see them get more profit.
If the library was easier than piracy, and you could download ebooks from the local library via 3g to your reader, including textbooks for students which could cut down on costs and maybe pay for the whole program, then maybe we could get some compensation to the authors through the library system, and the hackers could still have their books for free.