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Konrath challenges the Authors Guild
It starts out as a snarky fisking of the AG's position on the Google scan verdict:
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2015/1...ors-guild.html ...but it gets serious and sensible: Quote:
(And the mockery is good, too.) |
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10-19-2015, 09:43 PM | #2 | |
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10-19-2015, 09:45 PM | #3 |
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Konrath is always fantastic.
Even if he gives me nightmares. Pwalker did you actually read the blog? |
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He makes good points: why waste time, effort, and money fighting people trying to make you money?
If they don't respond to common sense, even in the legal system, maybe they can be shamed by mockery. It's not as if the courts are ruling on stickies; they are producing detailed point-by-point rulings citing chapter and verse of applicable law and precedent. |
10-19-2015, 10:27 PM | #5 |
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Mockery is not automatically a bad thing.
Sometimes it is a warning that you are doing something wrong. Like pain. |
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10-19-2015, 10:45 PM | #6 |
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I'm not sure what he means by net neutrality is here to stay. At least in the US, it is controversial and will be challenged and possibly reversed.
(Also why does the AG care about net neutrality?) |
10-19-2015, 11:05 PM | #7 |
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He's funny, and probably right.
Greed and power has corrupted and encouraged bad judgment within the traditional publishing industry. Brands became more important than writing good books. Protecting the status quo rather than taking a chance on new authors and new ways of doing things. Now they are dying by the death of a thousand cuts, and it is hard to feel sorry for them. Libraries are the only heroes I see regarding books right now, and publishers are bleeding libraries dry. Like I said, hard to feel sorry for traditional publishers or the AG. Last edited by conan50; 10-19-2015 at 11:45 PM. |
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https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneu...ck-sites.shtml http://guardianlv.com/2014/01/net-ne...ng-and-piracy/ http://www.songwritersguild.com/net_neutrality.htm |
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"Actual studies in piracy"...
Didn't Neil Gaiman already do something like that? |
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(His publisher was upset his book was being pirated. He shrugged it off and sales improved afterwards.) Eric Flint long documented the effects of putting ebooks in the BAEN Free Library's. (More sales.) Visibility is valuable and it can come from the least expected places. |
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I was afraid someone might claim the Baen Free Library isn't "piracy" and therefore "doesn't count".
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Check the comments at the source (if you haven't already) for an anecdote about an author who found his book pirated and being discussed on a pirate venue. Punchline: he didn't have the heart to tell them the book was permafree.
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I did notice that.
The comparison to the Baen Free Library I didn't spot though. |
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Yes I did. Snarking about something only impresses those who already agree with you and causes everyone else to dismiss you. If he's trying to convince the Author's Guild of something, he sure isn't going to succeed. All he's doing is shouting in his echo chamber.
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