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Originally Posted by mcl
I didn't see all of you author-boosters frothing at the mouth when Macmillan lowered its contractual payout by 5% late last year.
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I didn't see that news, or I'd have spoken about it just as strongly.
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Originally Posted by ficbot
Just to give you an arts-related example, my cousin is in a band and he gets paid for his gigs. But I can promise you that his take-home pay for a gig is not the same as Aerosmith's take-home pay for a gig, even if they both are doing the same 'job.'
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I'm not saying every author should bet the same per book.
I'm saying if Steven gets $4 or whatever for a paperback copy sold of The Shining , he should get $4 for an e-book copy of The Shining etc. E-book version cost the publisher less to put out, he did the same amount of work. He should get the same per copy, the publisher can get less and come out with the same (or close ideally) profit from not having printing and shipping costs on that copy.
Lesser known authors can get less per book etc. just like a lesser known band gets less per gig etc. But if that lesser known artist gets $1 per paperback copy of book A, he should get $1 per e-book copy.
And again, yes I know other professions get salary cuts--as I said earlier with furlough days for all university employees this year we've gotten around a 5% pay cut. And yes we've all been bitching about it incessantly as though we're not supposed to work those 8 days, the nature of academic work doesn't really let you take them off. Classes still have to be prepared, research has to be done--standards for tenure and promotion aren't being lowered because we have 8 less work days.
So it would be pretty hypocritical for me to bitch about it when it happens to me and not take up for those in other professions when it happens to them!
