This is nonsensical. Libraries buy huge numbers of books you wouldn't otherwise sell. They're a massive discoverability vector for authors. The reasons behind the declining author earnings are not hard to guess. People read less, have less $ to spend, +media is being consolidated by megacorporations
It's been a busy week so far: I delivered 1 translation on Monday morning (a rhyming non-fiction book from Catalan) & 1 translation this morning (a middle grade non fiction book from Chile) & also turned in proofs of 2 translations (1 Monday & 1 today).
But only made a small dent in my to-do list...
Increasingly glad I never bothered joining the Author’s Guild. You go after libraries, you do NOT represent me.
See you TONIGHT in Mamdani's NEW YORK CITAAAAAY
THE NEW YORK EVENT OF THE YEAR aside from the Knicks thing
Offers in excess of £45 million. Love how the standard Rightmove ‘can you afford it?’ mortgage calculator link remains on the page. No, you cannot.
I wrote about belonging, and how it can’t really be earned, just given.
irinadumitrescu.substack.com/p/the-gift-o...
sick public transit, gloria
Lawrence Schimel
💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.
