[codemog]

Hopefully the guillotines. Look up how much the authors and artists who create the actual work get paid.

[0x3f]

Quite a few textbook authors I know are paid well to be part of the whole scheme (kickbacks, forced yearly repurchase for the 'online' component of books, etc). So I think it varies a lot.

[smashah]

All authors should have a pay + linktree type thing so pirates can pay them directly.

Or something like thanks.dev