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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Well, since I sell my novels in multiple formats, with no DRM, at $1.99, have had very good reviews of my most recent work easily found on this site, and only ask customers not to take advantage of me--for which I enjoy pathetically small sales and find my work on torrent sites--I might suggest there are other factors at work here...
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As I said---your question was not about 'is it s bad time to be you, the lone wolf Steve Jordan' it was about 'authors' (i.e. a collective group). If you are positioning yourself as part of a collective group, then you take responsibility for whatever is going on in that collective group. And my opinion as a customer on that is, until authors band together in some sort of union or collective or whatever and collectively work together to help remove the barriers that legitimate customers currently face in actually handing over their money for product (geographic restrictions, non-interoperable DRM etc) then they have no right to complain. As long as authors continue to refuse to take money from people who want to give it to them, they have no credibility with me.
Again, I know this is not an issue for you specifically, Steve. But that was not your question. If it's about 'is this a bad time to be Steve Jordan' then I would tell you that novelists are pretty much by-the-piece salesman and hence cannot be compared to a salaried job. If you want to make more money, you have to sell more, and if you are not selling as much as other people are (there are people who DO sell very well, even in this age of the internet) there are probably reasons why.