Getting back to books:
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
I'm against Agency and price fixing.
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I accept that, but for some reason you post a lot more against agency-type arrangements when it comes to books than when it comes to retail price maintenance on ereading devices. I'm not saying it's a nefarious reason. More likely, this explains your emphasis:
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
I'm against predatory contracts abusing and demoralizing authors. I'm not against tradpub per-se, but the Manhattan mafia makes it hard to be anything but against them.
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If you mean this, I agree:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...-ebook-imprint
But Manhattan mafia seems a bit extreme (just as I think boycotting Amazon would be), especially if the alternative is a world without advances.
Also, while it is important that publishers share a substantial portion of their revenue with authors, I primarily judge publishers by the quality of their product. Admittedly, this is very hard to judge given that no one person can read more than the tiniest proportion of the output. But I'm still finding the great majority of what I want to read in major publishing house products.
Along those lines, I've finished
The Silkworm, and it has even better characterizations than the first Cormoran Strike mystery. If you believe that fiction provides a window into reality, it's hard to imagine your Manhattan mafia matching the depravity of the described London publishing world.
But then, as soon as the story ends, Rowling/Galbraith throws in a nonfiction-style acknowledgments chapter praising her agent and editor and imprint to the sky. So what's a guy to believe?