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Originally Posted by ficbot
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.
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I follow what you are saying... yet I wonder how much of this should be the responsibility of a "collective" of authors. After all, most of the problems you cite are caused by publishers, and authors are largely bound by existing contracts to let publishers do what they will, in exchange for their buying and marketing their work. IOW, I think your blaming authors for the misdeeds of publishers. This, too, could be a problem to address in the original post, i.e., whether authors are suffering unduly from publishers' actions.
You realize, of course, that authors breaking contracts with publishers would be a matter of law...