Hmmm...Last time I checked, most of our good artists/authors/programmers started off as "starving artists." Indeed, many of the best novels ever written were published after the author's death in near poverty.
Once an author, like Ellison, for instance, gets more concerned about profit than prose, well, that's when everything goes to shite.
In my view, we'd have better creative work in this country if they didn't earn a dime on any of it.
I must admit I lost a lot of respect for Ellison after reading about his "kick net piracy" campaign. I guess he's pissed that some people are reading his work without permission. Woohoo. I guess something about being commercially published just warps these people's minds; suddenly, it's all about profit and making the cash; the fact that people actually want to read and share your work doesn't mean squat.
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Hmmm...Last time I checked, most of our good artists/authors/programmers started off as "starving artists." Indeed, many of the best novels ever written were published after the author's death in near poverty. Once an author, like Ellison, for instance, gets more concerned about profit than prose, well, that's when everything goes to shite. In my view, we'd have better creative work in this country if they didn't earn a dime on any of it.
I must admit I lost a lot of respect for Ellison after reading about his "kick net piracy" campaign. I guess he's pissed that some people are reading his work without permission. Woohoo. I guess something about being commercially published just warps these people's minds; suddenly, it's all about profit and making the cash; the fact that people actually want to read and share your work doesn't mean squat.