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[witchchild]

Myths about pirated books from an employee at Llewellyn.

If you've ever downloaded a copy of a book from the Internet and it was not an authorized copy, read this. There are very few pagan authors who can afford to support themselves fully off of their writing alone. From the post:
Most authors support themselves with full-time jobs in addition to

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[pierceheart]

Best of luck to them on their DMCA takedowns - I filed multiple ones for a piece I wrote, and the worst offender offshored his ISP, and said "Go ahead, sue me!"

[bleed_peroxide]

That's precisely why I always buy my books, especially pagan ones - I imagine that it's damn near impossible to earn a living off of it unless people who wish to learn do it the legitimate way. I also prefer to actually have a physical copy of a book - I don't own a Kindle-type thing, and I seldom use the computer edition of it.

[btripp]

People have such an unrealistic view of the publishing business. I did a post on the subject a few months back ... http://btripp.livejournal.com/1094502.html

It's hard to believe, but the average newly-published book in the USA only sells 500 copies, and only 2% of all books published each year sell as many as 5,000 copies. Considering how little per copy most authors get paid, the top 2% of authors would be lucky to get a couple of thousand dollars, the rest (unless they got an amazing deal with a big advance) barely make anything