[ SECRET POST #5081 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5081 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who loves to write and would like to be published someday, I understand the authors' POV.

As a reader with a limited budget, though, it's not feasible for me to buy every single book I think looks promising. I'll get as many as I can through the library, but sometimes I think authors forget what it's like to be on the buying end of the equation.

[(Anonymous)]

100% this

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(Cozy Werewolf Anon)

I feel bad for many trad pubbed authors. Many of them have a dream of making a living off their writing. And very few can actually do so. Seanan McGuire, midlist, very prolific, fantasy author still has a Patreon.

Most writers do not want to hear writing can't be a day job unless you are very lucky. The disparity in advances is infuriating. Some writers have no idea what it is like at all to be poor.

Messages like this I think are more to try to stem the TIDE of ebook piracy. Which the stats aren't really often in the author's target market anyways. (40 to 50 year old middle class white men/women, at least in the US. The people who can afford to buy books most likely.) Because so many readers who might follow on social media don't know how money is allocated behind the scenes at publishing houses.

I get why they do it, but it misses the intended audience Publishing houses should be cracking down on.