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Originally Posted by HansTWN
For those of you who don't speak German let me give you a quote from the German author Meinecke as seen in the German part of the forum. "Ich freue mich darüber, wenn jemand 19,90 Euro für meinen neuen Roman bezahlt. Ich betrachte das als anteilige Anerkennung eines mehrjährigen Arbeitsprozesses." Translation: "I am very happy if someone is willing to pay Euro 19.90 for my new novel. For me that means they acknowledge the years of work I have put into it." He continues to contrast this with a government sponsored program to support artists and voluntary donations by readers, and continues: "Hier steht sozusagen Ehre gegen Gnade". "This is a case of honor vs pity/mercy".
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Cute, if uninformed. He's ignoring the huge, looming presence of Traditional Publishers, and the work they did/cut they take/etc.
I'm sure he's happy that people are buying what he's writing, and I'm sure he feels happy and is proud that he's (no longer) getting
Artist benefits, so that he can now claim not to be living "at the mercy of the welfare state", but it seems a bit like biting the hand that feeds you (or derisive towards his less successful peers). Then again, writers don't always like to be known for being
nice.
