This kills the self-pubber filth
>>25168351>some dolt spends time to download and pirates my book>pirates read my book and leave reviews on goodreads>other people get curious>they buy book>word of mouth has more people buy book>finally get 10 sales
>>25168359You aren’t an author.
why is this even an issue?Distribute your .pdfs and don't care about piracy, then let people buy physical copies.If you're a self-published author, you've already resigned yourself to poverty anyway.
Depends what your goals are. Mine are to have people read my stuff. I don't care about getting rich off of it. If people read it and enjoy it, I'm a happy man.
>>25168378You could always just do fanfiction if you want that.
>>25168378based
>>25168397I tried writing fanfiction when I was younger but couldn't really get into it. I like coming up with my own stuff.
>>25168411You can get a lot of readers on web novel sites like RoyalRoad if you do enough market research and write what’s hot. But not everyone likes to write to a deadline.
>>25168415I've actually never heard of that site. I might check it out. Thanks, anon.
>>25168351You want people to pirate your book if you self publish. You're praying for people to give a shit at all, not trying to protect the 5 bucks you might have made. The economies of scale don't begin to make sense unless you have thousands of readers in the first place.
>stop caring>problem solved
>>25168351I don't want to self publish, but if I need to I would probably give it away for free anyway
>>25168351lmao no. ip ownership remains and all books are pirateable
>>25168949Publishing houses have teams of lawyers that can take down piracy sites. You’re a pleb who can barely use a computer.
>Publish your work for free online>Get picked up by a publishing company>Still publish online for free while also publishing trad>Make enough money from sales to mind-break Western publishers every volumeLight Novel Chads stay winning.
>>25168965Look at reviews for any web novel that gets trad published. Half the reviews say it’s written poorly, especially on Amazon or Audible. Readers know better. Also, didn’t Shirtaloon get filched by his “trad” publishing houses?
>>25168968>Amazon>AudibleLol, Lmao even, LMFAO I'd wrecken.
>>25168971Amazon is the main distributor of the book, even for trad published books
>>25168351Piracy only negatively affects publishers because their business model depends on stealing 90% of book sales revenue from the author.People who self-publish web novels entirely for free on Royal Road and elsewhere make money because their fans are willing to support authors of works they enjoy. No DRM or copyright protection needed, just get good.>write web novel for free>people love it and want to give you money>start patreon for fans to pay a fee for new chapter releases in advance of the web novel>sell well-formatted ebooks>sell merch>get so popular that traditional publishers will crawl over each other to get the rights to distribute your book physically/make a movie All of that is possible with a web novel that is freely available for anyone to read.
>>25168968I don't mean to defend self published trash but trad published shit can be just as heinous, if not more. Last month I read a trad published book that was one long, run on sentence about how men are all rapists. More than half of all trad published book ls are poorly written. All those gay endorsements from feminists about how powerful and timely it is doesn't disguise its awfulness.
>>25169052Was that the duckbutt book?
>>25169052What was the book?
copy right is illegal and should not exist.
>>25168364How do you know?
>>25168965The girl on number 6 is rather adorable. Too bad I don’t watch anime or read light novels
>>25169159Then why pay for any information ever? Writers, researchers, and artists should just do it for free and pump out less work because they don’t have time to do it when they work another job. You can use copyright pragmatically to feed yourself instead of going open source about everything.
>>25169159What about copy left?
>>25169166Because you’re self-published. Being an author means you pass some bare minimum level of quality control. Just filling a word document with slop and putting it on KDP isn’t about passing curation.
>>25169177>bare minimum level of quality controlWhere was the quality control for Shy Girl? Where was the quality control for Amy Griffin's "The Tell?" I get what you're saying. But being traditionally published has nothing to do with quality. It has everything to do with nepotism. If you can suck every feminist's clit in New York you can get AI generated trash and fake memoirs about being raped in a past life published.
>>25169185We’re in a counterculture period again so don’t look for validation from the big publishers anymore. Do you think Pynchon or Ashbery got published in New Yorker when they were your age? Do you think they sucked up to Big Apple feminist trend setters? Take a cue from the guys who you look up to from the past: they got published in small university magazines, or outright zines, fledgling journals, and small presses. The key difference is that there was a community and curation process, not that counterculture figures just printed it out themselves and didn’t hand it to anyone to critique or accept.
>>25169194Pychon was published by the CIA. He's a nepotist too. Lots of counterculture chucklefucks from that era are government agents.
I already disabled DRM on my self-pub ebook anyway. If it ever gets popular enough for someone to upload it to the piracy sites (not happening anytime soon), I will be happy. Self-published stuff is frequently not available for piracy due to limited popularity, but traditionally published stuff is almost always pirateable so I'm not sure what the point of this thread is.
>>25169205I think you have shattered self esteem and predict rejection by avoiding tension.
>>25168962irrelevant, ip is for sale to more profits than those of actual books. also no one will take down piracy sites. kill yourself
jews pushing their useless middleman corporations is too obvious
>>25169218>>25170301
>>25168351Do you think self-publish uses different, less secure DRM than trad publishers? Because that's not true, obviously. All book DRMs are super easy to strip with free and very available tools. All else being equal, I'm less likely to pirate a self-published book either because a) I don't think about it at all, or b) I care about the author and want to support them
It costs more to host a pirated copy than to buy it.Hahahahaha jokes on you pirate
>>25168351>caring this much about piracy when you live on government cheese so you always have dough every weekcouldn't be me. NEET life is great, although I go to college, so I don't technically qualify in that regard.
>>25169205by extension does that make the 70s feminist movement glow harder?
>>25169194>pynchudkekTry reading for more than 5 years and you'll see how cringe this is.
>>25169177oh. ok walt whiman. ok ezra pound. list goes on.
>>25168351what nigga? people pirate every book on annas archive. self-publish or not
>>25168378ThisIf I ever finish anything I'll just release it for free
