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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Nothing there you won't see all over.
People are talking openly now because they no longer have to grin and bear it.
Turow sees nothing wrong, but then Turow doesn't have to deal with publishers that "forgot" to pay.
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The internet makes piracy easy, and that's bad for arists, be they authors or musicians. However: the internet also makes self-distribution and self-marketing easy. There are more and more authors every year. I see many that write fantasy, mystery and crime, and started only a few years ago. Some of them publish eBooks exclusively, by themselves.
When going through a pulisher and store, an author gets a very small cut of the price of a sold book. These authors live in the digital age. They could self-publish their eBooks, and set up their own web stores. Then, they'd get a much higher amount of money in the end, and if a publisher wants a paper version in stores, he can come to the author, instead of the other way around.
It's not the authors that are dying: it's the publishers.