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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Don't get me started on agents, for me they're a notch below child-molesters (shamelessly stealing a Woody Allen joke and fully aware of the irony too).
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, writers need to be their own publishers. They need to cut these parasitic old industries away from the flesh and start doing all this stuff for themselves. We're entering a very radical time in writing, it hasn't been this way since the 1960's when zines and author-owned publishing companies started to flourish. It's the perfect opportunity for writer and audience to cut a new, fair deal.
I've stopped buying from corporate publishers now, same as I don't buy from RIAA affiliated music publishers. The creators are never paid what they deserve, my money is bypassing the pockets of the artists and going into the faceless coffers of some industry that treats artists like shit.
Four month delays, eight months, two years, doesn't matter any more. I'm no longer a customer and there are more joining me every day.
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I was listening to the audio of one of the Canadian Copyright Consultation townhalls. There was a music agent that was emotionally telling the room that he representing a well known Canadian artist (that everyone in the room would know if he mentioned his name) who had worked years in the industry but didn't have enough money to purchase a house.
All I could think of was, 'let me see you make your living off of his work and I bet you have a house. I bet you have a really nice house'.
It seems that every time an artist is trying to figure out how they had all the blood sucked out of them, it's the publishers and the agents that are the vampires in the room spouting inflated statistics about how much blood mosquitoes suck worldwide each and every day.