Re:The publishing industry has a gambling problem
by prerok on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @04:18PM
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You mean like an authorship coop? Might work, but the main problem is authors' self importance. Not a single author I know of would opt for it. They are all just impoverished millionares.
For less narcissistic authors it may well work, though. Will pitch it, thanks for the idea!
Extend Copyright? (no, no..)
I have two ideas:
- Recommendations. Publishers connect with private LLM/Agents for custom recommendations. They'd need to keep reviews private, but could trade them among themselves.
- Insurance Pool. Authors could add works to a pool of books, and the profits could be split. Publishers would need to maintain the quality of books or authors won't join.