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Originally Posted by oggelbe2007
I wonder how many fans/readers consider an authors personality when they decide to read a particular book? If an author is really a jerk how likely are you to actively seek out their work and spend the time/effort reading it? Does that factor in at all? I'm not implying anything about this particular author but just authors in general.  |
I consider everything I know about an author when deciding on purchases.
I don't buy from authors who "don't allow" fanfiction of their works. (I don't believe authors have the legal right to prevent it, hence the quotes. But authors who want to prevent transformative or parodic use of their characters are in the no-buy list.)
I don't buy from authors who campaign against same-sex marriages, or who support racist politics, or who want to curtail women's reproductive rights.
That doesn't mean I google every potential author before purchasing--but an author who makes it into my sphere of awareness as being *known* for traits I find vile, doesn't get money from me.
Authors who are dicks to their fans are in a weird quasi-category. I don't directly boycott rudeness, but it's possible I'd think over the situation I know about and decide, "Not giving her any money today"--and "today" might happen to be any day I was considering buying the book. Or it might not; I don't try to keep mental tabs on who's been a jerk online. (I have enough problems keeping track of who's joined the ranks of psycho fascists; I am
not wasting braincells tracking general rudeness.)