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by falcolas 2264 days ago
Did your royalties, as an author, go up accordingly? Or was that money absorbed by the publishers?

Publishers getting richer is not a sign that the system is working as intended.

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Right, but authors getting a shitty percentage from their publishers is a complaint that's literally as old as publishing itself, it has nothing to do with the model being "obsolete" because of the internet. If it was really that bad, we would all have defected to Amazon already, but we haven't because most of us hugely prefer our publishers to the alternative.