Outstanding post, elf. K+
I want to be optimistic, but I fear for any reasonable solution as long as we have, on one side, publishers who are so tightly-sphinctered they won't allow tts or a single two-week lend or format shift, and, on the other side, people who call for authors to cede the rights to the fruit of their labor to everyone and their uncle.
Both extremes only inflame the other, while the rational middle majority, who just wants to be fair to everyone, hangs frustrated in limbo. (Or worse, if the lobbyists with the most $ win.)
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