Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastien
Also, an author doesn't receive a cent from second hand books and libraries. Does that mean that they should be banned?
|
It's been mentioned before, here and in other threads, that libraries pay an additional amount when they purchase a book to account for a royalty to the author (I'm sure it's not as much as they'd get per individually-sold book, but it's something).
As far as second-hand books are concerned, the publishing system writes those books off once they are sold. Maybe when e-books become more prevalent, the used book market will largely die off... I don't know. But since a printed book generally continues to be one printed book... and not a replicated hundreds of digital books... the potential income or loss is obviously not enough for publishers to care about.
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastien
I think that the author is not the one who suffers more from pirating. The publisher and distributor are the one loosing the most.
|
I don't have an editor, publisher or distributor. Every book of mine stolen is money out of
my pocket, and no one else's. At any rate, it shouldn't make any difference who's losing more of the money... the point is, if it's not being paid for, everyone loses.
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastien
You must be familiar with the latest Nine Inch Nail album? They gave it away for free on their web site, and yet they turned a mighty profit with special edition cd/dvd for their biggest fans.
|
Lucky them. And is it okay that many people downloaded the album and did not pay them a dime? If you did pay, would you feel it was fair that others took it for free? And when others decide that what's good enough for pirates is good enough for them... aren't we just encouraging more piracy?
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastien
My first order of business would be to make it more easy for the second book buyer, and 'honorable' pirates, to send me voluntary contribution.
|
I'm not even going to entertain the concept of an "honorable" pirate.
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastien
This generalization isn't fair. Just for fun, how much money do you make from the sale of a book? How much does the publisher? the printer? and the distributor?
|
I make 100% from each sale. And when the book is stolen, I
lose 100% of the sale. Trying to justify a loss by saying the author gets such a small slice of the pie anyway doesn't wash.
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastien
The majority of the people on this forum are avid readers. People who most likely spend hundreds in book each year. Now they have a new toys and they are more than willing to spend as much for the material (minus the printing fee). The issue now is the availability of the material. In most cases the only way to access it is through pirating. All they ask is an easy way to have access to the material. All I ask, is a way to send money directly to the author/publisher.
|
No... the only way to access material that's
never been converted to e-book is through pirating. But there is plenty of legitimate e-book material that is also being pirated.
At any rate, there is no god-given right to have e-book material just because you want it, any more than I have a right to pirate a Porche just because I want it. If it's not available as an e-book, you buy the print book, you make your own e-book from that, or you twist in the wind. Lack of availability doesn't justify piracy.