Writing books is not really a good idea

Post by Dylan16807 » Tue, May 11, 2021, 2:06 PM UTC

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Interesting. I really don't see any good argument why copyright should last longer than, say, 20 years. Would any potential authors decide it's not worth it to write books if copyright only lasted 20 years? What benefit to society does ~100 years of copyright provide?

How do you solve the Mickey Mouse problem? E.g., you have a character that has created an "empire" that an organization has the means (cultural/monetary) to prevent their creation from entering the public domain. You have to figure out what to do about those rare situations because they're the driving force for extending copyrights. My ideal is like the old system (initial registration plus fixed term renewals). That…

Post by tpxl » Tue, May 11, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC

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> the dream combination is probably publishing in-progress with subscriptions If you are into Chinese webnovels you'll be familiar with the subscription predatory practices that big companies like Qidian have, where the real cost of a whole 1500-chapter novel (inflated because of the perverse incentives of subscription-based revenue) ends up being close to 500USD It is sad watching the transition from fan translation…

What's that in word count, and how often are the chapters coming out?

Post by webmaven » Tue, May 11, 2021, 2:49 PM UTC

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My wife has toyed with the idea of writing romance novels. Do you have many romance writers on Leanpub? Her thinking is to keep the "trashiness" of most romance but improve on the story and writing. She keeps saying "I need a publisher", but I was thinking there must be a simple way to publish straight to Amazon, looks like that's Leanpub!

I don't know if I should give any advice. But there are so many publishers/companies that prey on people who want to write, or think they are good enough to publish. They are called Vanity Publishers. It's a huge scummy business. It all seems kosher because the customer agrees to the deal.

Post by BeFlatXIII » Tue, May 11, 2021, 2:52 PM UTC

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Unlike movies/TV shows, books tend to 'age' relatively slowly. Many books that were written 30 years ago are still immensely enjoyable today. Not only that, but there are a literal ton of books out there that have been read by hundreds of thousands of people and reviewed extensively. I have found my personal enjoyment of a book to be loosely correlated with the goodreads / B&N scores. This gives me at least some sign…

But... many movies and TV shows from 30 years are also still immensely enjoyable today. Or heck, from 70 years ago. Why do you think movies and TV somehow age more than books?

Post by atseajournal » Tue, May 11, 2021, 3:00 PM UTC

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I know the following will sound like something only a sock puppet would say, but I created an account just to agree with the level of rancor you've got towards the boring-by-default literary world. I got serious about writing as a teen, and being a serious writer meant aping the great literature I was reading -- ie an emphasis on fine prose and emotional weather reporting -- which led to an acute lack of juice in my…

So... out of curiosity, what are you looking for out of a blog? A few people have commented I should over the year. I dont have one, but I've thought about doing one.