09-14-2024, 06:17 PM
The problem with this is that:
a) Creators need to eat, and the time they spend creating cannot be used in having a job that pays the bills;
b) Publishers of all kinds related to the different type of creations are willing to pay the creators because they think they will have a positive return from it. To them it's an investment, as they have to spend money to either make the creator's work known or distributed;
c) Naturally, publishers defend their investment.
As a kind of PS, it's the resellers that make the big money. In a case I know (as I have seen the invoices), an author writes books that are published and she sells them directly to a big store. That big store sells the books for almost 5 times what they payed for it.
a) Creators need to eat, and the time they spend creating cannot be used in having a job that pays the bills;
b) Publishers of all kinds related to the different type of creations are willing to pay the creators because they think they will have a positive return from it. To them it's an investment, as they have to spend money to either make the creator's work known or distributed;
c) Naturally, publishers defend their investment.
As a kind of PS, it's the resellers that make the big money. In a case I know (as I have seen the invoices), an author writes books that are published and she sells them directly to a big store. That big store sells the books for almost 5 times what they payed for it.
