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Originally Posted by shalym
I quoted your post to address this statement:
and point out that buying a book by an author with a troubled past does not always give any money to the estate.
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Perhaps not, although there are other stakeholders to consider. The publishers, anyone who’s involved in ancillary works, etc. My post did not preclude that in any case; I was addressing the post I quoted, which said that the issues are moot after the author’s death. They aren’t.
But I got curious. As for what happens to MZB’s royalties, are you sure? Or are you being taken in by a gloss put on the situation to justify continued sales and purchases?
In fact, it seems as if the publisher in this case, Gollancz, does donate its share of the profits from MZB’s works, but the picture is far murkier in regard to the the royalties paid to MZB’s Literary Trust. I found this:
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"By all appearances the Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust, which holds all of MZB's copyrights and is not listed in California's database of nonprofits, is funneling profits from sales of her works to a small group of MZB's friends and enablers. Nothing, so far as I know, goes to her children or to any charity.” — comment by Alessandra Kelley at Marion Zimmer Bradley - Silence is Complicity (TRIGGERS); WebCite, June 23, 2014.
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In any case, it seems obvious that Elisabeth Waters continues to profit personally from her association with MZB and her works and since it also seems obvious she was complicit in MZB’s behavior and its coverup, that in itself would make purchases problematic. For me.