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Top-level
Publishing profits are better than they were 10 years ago, all the time that Internet Archive has been doing its thing—loaning the books it owns. And yet Big Publishing is pouring money into suing the Archive, saying that they’ve been economically devastated? We don’t see it. What publishing wins from the Archive, if they win (and they shouldn’t), is $$$ straight into the pockets of lawyers and lobbyists, not #authors. Ask us how we know? We made a third chart. 2 comments
It seems unfair that as #publishing profits remain steady or grow, publishers are paying authors less than ever. While suing to shut down the digital libraries we need the most in this era of book bans and censorship. Who’s the real "Napster"? If you love the Internet Archive like we do, show your support by heading to https://BattleForLibraries.com and by telling big publishers to leave #libraries’ rights alone and start paying authors + publishing staffs appropriately! |
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While the tens of billions publishing is making has been at historic highs over the past several years, median author incomes, which frankly were always pathetic, have gone down over 50% since 2007.
This massive dip on the chart of author incomes (thank you #AuthorsGuild for the data!) looks an awful lot like the plunge that record labels took when, their words not ours, someone was “stealing” from them.