I think Flint would describe it as enormously successful:
"I measure "successful," by the way, using the only criterion that means much to me as an author: Webscriptions, unlike all other electronic outlets I know of, pays me royalties in substantial amounts. As of now, I've received about $2,140 in electronic royalties from Baen Books for the year 2000. (The last period reported.)
That sum is of course much smaller than my paper edition royalties, but it can hardly be called "peanuts." Every other electronic outlet I know of, in contrast, pays royalties-if at all-in two figures. My friend Dave Drake has given me permission to let the public know that his best-earning book published by anyone other than Baen, in one reporting period, earned him $36,000 in royalties for the paper edition-and $28 for the electronic edition. And that's about typical for even a successful book issued electronically."
I think that sense of entitlement (and, frankly, I'm not going to come down too hard on someone for realising that the current system of copyright revolves entirely around artificial scarcity and feeling this is a bit of a crock) and self-justification, as you put it, is commoner in anime fandom, no doubt; but largely because it now consists mostly of teenagers, who don't as a rule have a great deal of money; it's clear that the stack of downloads on someone's hard drive does not - cannot - correspond to a stack of lost sales. The question to ask is not how to stop them downloading stuff, but how to soak them for money when they get proper jobs.
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Date: 2010-04-20 04:13 pm (UTC)"I measure "successful," by the way, using the only criterion that means much to me as an author: Webscriptions, unlike all other electronic outlets I know of, pays me royalties in substantial amounts. As of now, I've received about $2,140 in electronic royalties from Baen Books for the year 2000. (The last period reported.)
That sum is of course much smaller than my paper edition royalties, but it can hardly be called "peanuts." Every other electronic outlet I know of, in contrast, pays royalties-if at all-in two figures. My friend Dave Drake has given me permission to let the public know that his best-earning book published by anyone other than Baen, in one reporting period, earned him $36,000 in royalties for the paper edition-and $28 for the electronic edition. And that's about typical for even a successful book issued electronically."
I think that sense of entitlement (and, frankly, I'm not going to come down too hard on someone for realising that the current system of copyright revolves entirely around artificial scarcity and feeling this is a bit of a crock) and self-justification, as you put it, is commoner in anime fandom, no doubt; but largely because it now consists mostly of teenagers, who don't as a rule have a great deal of money; it's clear that the stack of downloads on someone's hard drive does not - cannot - correspond to a stack of lost sales. The question to ask is not how to stop them downloading stuff, but how to soak them for money when they get proper jobs.