re: #148 Walter L. Newton

Are you crazy? You create something, all your own, and after, or let’s say, 18 years, you want ANYONE to be able to make money off of your creation, to the point that you can’t even share in a meaningful amount of the profits of your work?

In that case, do something creative and let me know what it is. I’m going to have my heirs all over your estate in 18 years. Whoopee!

And don’t forget all the incidental costs passed on to authors. Often they need an agent just to get their book published. Bye-bye 10% off the gross! Publishers get their cut off the gross. Gov’t gets their cut off the gross. PR (since publishers are actually pretty cheap about this) get their cut off the gross.

Most authors make very little of the initial distribution of their product. For them to actually own it for a good, long while is no injustice, I think.