Comment on Copyright Doesn’t Provide A ‘Living’ For A Successful Author

• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Your argument is that she’s paying ghost writers so that she can maintain her lucrative can’t-afford-to-live-in-the-US lifestyle?

  Is this comments section an influx of publishing industry shills or something? The logic of some of these comments is fully bonkers.

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  • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My argument resides that at some point an author becomes a brand and it is cheaper and more effective for a publisher to have ghost writters churning out more material to make more cash, while paying a pittance in royalties to the author to keep them stringed, than waiting for the author to put forward another work.

    Am I an industry shill? Hardly. An author will get pennies on the dolllar for every book sold, while the publishers make fortunes out of their work. That’s plain theft.

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