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Originally Posted by pruss
I have a book with a major academic press. If I could distribute it for free electronically, I would do so in a heartbeat, in order to increase readership (which is what I care about; nobody is really making money on this item). But I can't, given the wording of my contract. Since I freely consented to the contract, I need to abide by it.
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Again, if you sold 90
Million copies of your books as Mr. Coelho did, I think that publishers will kow-tow to your wishes, even send a messenger to your house with a pirate eye-patch if you wanted
To me all this noise about Mr. Coelho is irrelevant since someone selling that many copies is as close to royalty as it gets in the publishing world, so he can do whatever he wishes...
The sad part is that those authors who would benefit the most from this (the obscure ones) are usually shackled by the publishers and since they are the worker bees not the queen, they gotta kow-tow to the publisher instead