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And following the trend that started three or four years ago, the big traditional publishers are working to tie down as many writers’ books as possible, and control as many rights. So their contracts in 2013 managed to get even worse and have become completely anti-writer.
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So... how do they expect to keep writers publishing through their company, in an age where everybody who owns a computer that is less than 10 years old can be his own publisher if he wants to?
If a well-known writer gives his publisher the finger and sets up shop on his own personal site (literally: running a webshop is relatively trivial nowadays), he can sell his books for less than what they would normally cost, and after paying the operational costs of the site, he gets to keep all the money.
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Scribd is known for being a pirate site.
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Who actually said that? Scribd is not a pirate site, but it can be used as such by submitting works to it for which you don't have the copyright. Sometimes, they get through... for a time.