a:59:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:14:"comment_author";s:12:"David Hewson";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:28:"david.hewson@davidhewson.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:0:"";s:15:"comment_content";s:1225:"Libraries are a different issue. In most countries, though not the US, there's something called Public Lending Right, which gives authors directly a modest payment each year based on how popular their books are when it comes to library lending. Seems fair enough to me. I don't know what the situation is in the US but I can tell you - libraries buy books at deeply discounted rates. No one is getting rich selling to them.

Most self publishers are selling tiny quantities of books, if they're selling at all, and will have to devote vast amounts of time and some money to marketing, begging people on forums and Twitter to buy their books, and other mindless crap if they want to sell a few more. 

Writers shouldn't be doing this. They should be writing. Could an established writer succeed through direct marketing? In my view only if they were a huge international brand name, which probably limits that to ten or twenty authors, mostly American, all of them English language. 

This may change if the publishing infrastructure implodes, but even then the problem of book theft will remain. Unless you think book thieves are going to say, 'Hey - I'll pay for THIS one because it's been self-published!'

I don't.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:4:"2609";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"1";s:7:"user_ip";s:13:"84.93.138.174";s:10:"user_agent";s:128:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13";s:8:"referrer";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:9:"user_role";s:13:"administrator";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:12:"POST_comment";s:1225:"Libraries are a different issue. In most countries, though not the US, there's something called Public Lending Right, which gives authors directly a modest payment each year based on how popular their books are when it comes to library lending. Seems fair enough to me. I don't know what the situation is in the US but I can tell you - libraries buy books at deeply discounted rates. No one is getting rich selling to them.

Most self publishers are selling tiny quantities of books, if they're selling at all, and will have to devote vast amounts of time and some money to marketing, begging people on forums and Twitter to buy their books, and other mindless crap if they want to sell a few more. 

Writers shouldn't be doing this. They should be writing. Could an established writer succeed through direct marketing? In my view only if they were a huge international brand name, which probably limits that to ten or twenty authors, mostly American, all of them English language. 

This may change if the publishing infrastructure implodes, but even then the problem of book theft will remain. Unless you think book thieves are going to say, 'Hey - I'll pay for THIS one because it's been self-published!'

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