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Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive by falcolas on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:16PM (#23380147)
It is happening (I recently got a kickstarted atlas of Mars - how fricking cool is that?!). But then the authors also have to do their own marketing and promotion, another care taken over by the publishers for these few authors.
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Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive by simias on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:21PM (#23380221)
And editing. Good editing can be very important. There's a lot of "R&D" work being done by publishers, I don't think it's fair to equate them to a glorified kickstarter. Same goes for music studios and movie producers. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive by falcolas on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:31PM (#23380372)
Agreed. I'm doing some amateur proofreading for a hobby, and it's a lot of work to properly proofread large bodies of text.
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Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive by mcguire on Monday June 01, 2020 @04:05PM (#23383086)
Quick question: what is the budget for marketing and promotion for the average published book?
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