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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 00:18:41 JST Charlie Stross

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   @buherator @stf @pluralistic No, this isn't entirely correct: royalties are a percentage of the net receipts the publisher gets from retailers. And big retailers extort a deeper discount off SRP than small bookshops. So I get less per sale via, say, Amazon, Waterstones, or B&N than from my local SF specialist store Transreal Fiction.

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     buherator (buherator@infosec.place)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 00:18:42 JST buherator

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     @stf @pluralistic @cstross I learned at Bsky that at least author royalties are independent from distributors which is good news!
     
     https://bsky.app/profile/notaname.info/post/3le53oer4hk24
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     stf (stf@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 00:18:44 JST stf

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     @buherator i think that is an excellent question for @pluralistic or @cstross myself found libris.nl in the netherlands to be an association of b&m bookshops that has an online presence to be ok for my taste.

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     buherator (buherator@infosec.place)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 00:18:45 JST buherator
     What are the online #book stores that are neither a) monopolistic giants built on enshittification nor b) copyright bullies?
     
     If I ask for a unicorn, which ones do at least give authors a more fair share for their work?