Libraries often pay MORE for books than bookstores in addition to buying multiple copies. (Especially! Ebooks! By orders of magnitude!)
Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜
The Authors Guild routinely takes the side of industry.
It's publisher profits, not library sales, that cut unfairly into author compensation, just like Spotify hogs musicians' money. They're trying to make you look the other way.
LIBRARIES PAY FOR BOOKS and help spread authors' reach.
You all-- I never thought I'd see the day, but library peeps, strap in for a fight. The Author's Guild is going after us as the reason why authors are making less money. I don't think they understand who they are dealing with: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
A survey commissioned by the Guild found that only 25% of print books and e-books read in the past month were bought new or through a paid subscription, with readers increasingly turning to low- or no...
