Do you think authors are compensated rightly these days?
Average prices by edition
>hardcover $22
>paperback $14
>digital edition $14
Sales volume by edition
>paperback: 50% of the total copies
>hardcover: 25%
>digital: 25%
Average royalty rates: 15%
Average agent fees: 15% of your royalties
(28+22+14)/4*0.13(1-0.15)=2.04
You get roughly 2 bucks per each copy your book sells.
t. a worker at a publisher
No. Especially considering that most authors are dead now. The contemporary writers are still getting raped. You have to figure out a way to make money outside of the actual craft. Sort of like YouTube. You can't rely on views for revenue. You have to use those views to generate it via merch, movie deals, products, talks, guest work, etc.
>>7316255
>YouTube
I heard you get $4 per 1,000 views. Is that correct?
>>7316224
that is why you self publish once you've made your breakout
musicians do it all the time. they release one good album and get cúcked by the publishers, then start their own record label and release the rest of their albums via that
Hey guys, I am 22 and I have read a lot when I was a teenager. I am a very cynical and a person of critique. I am also a non-native English speaker, and I am trying to get through ''The Last of the Mohicans''. It is really difficult for me, both the language and all the descriptions, with 2 page long descriptions of how some man stood. My attention span is very bad (I have bi polar). How would you suggest reading this book or should I not read it? How would you rate it guys?
>>7316054
>non-native English speaker
Deport yourself.
>>7316061
I live in my home country, in Eastern Europe :)
>>7316054
>I am a very cynical and a person of critique
sounds like me
I'm nihilistic with a wicked sense of humor
Do you know any books that helped you overcome anxiety and depression?
>>7316039
the trial
Nietszche
>>7316051
really?
I finally finished reading this (Longfellow translation).
I recognize the genius behind it and it's obvious Dante was intelligent and very well read but I really can't say I overly enjoyed it.
Would a different translation or more knowledge of Christianity (and its many notable contributors) increase my liking for it?
Reading up on it might do it. It should include relevant information about Christianity.
>>7315982
fanfic doesn't belong on /lit/
Clive James' translation if you want a more bombastic, modern translation that takes a lot of liberties with the source text
John Ciardi's if you want a perfectly serviceable translation with great notes on the deeper allegorical meanings of the work
The Hollanders' translation if you want each cantica in seperate , aesthetic at volumes brimming with academic commentary. Probably the dryest of the three but still very enjoyable.
A lot of the reason the Divine Comedy is so popular is because Dante is very intimate with his reader, addressing him directly and inviting us to go along with him. In a sense, the best readers perform a bit of their own moral inventory as they accompany Dante along. If you read this not as a dusty old poem but as a great work of moral fiction, and really sit on and contemplate the horror of Hell and the beauty of heaven, it s one of the most powerful poems I've ever read. Approach the historical figures present in the poem not as boring historical figures but real actual people who lived who did some fucked up shit and were saved by the grace of their faith in a better life.
Not to mention Dante's language always shines through
Hey /lit/. I've been lurking on and off for the last couple years, and I've found so many great books because of you guys. This Christmas I'd like to give back, so I'm planning to send out a stack of books to some random /lit/izens.
This thread is for planning logistics and to figure out who'd like to sign up and join in.
I don't recall ever seeing this before on this board, so the first thing I'd like to find out is if it's been done before and how it worked out.
>>7315890
I'm sorry, how would this fit better on /his/?
>>7315921
it's a meme
Is there a single literary critic who was also a great fiction writer?
>>7315880
bloom is a historical artifact
go2/his/
>>7315899
A literary critic is not the same as a philosopher, and would never not be /lit/ material.
I picked it up after endless knobslobbering from peers, just to see what it's all about. Almost a hundred pages in and I've only barely cracked a smile at one or two of the comedic moments, but it's been like walking through sludge otherwise. I'm only reading for hope beyond hope that Autism-incarnate kills himself or something. Should I even bother?
>>7315797
Actually he fucks some hot beatnik chick and gets a job
honestly if you didn't laugh when he jacked off thinking about his dead dog there's no hope for you
>>7315812
That was Chris Chan, not Ignatius
kisses from a bee
are secretly my fetish
but I hate the sting
>>7315759
muh dick is so big
your mum cannot take it all
so she pukes a bit
>>7315774
damn this is off to a good start
>>7315759
This goes back to >>/his/
It is for humanities
Not for your own crap
Who is godot?
godot
>>7315737
yes
God
why is he terrified of Nietzche?
Why are you such a shit posting fag?
Some things are just mysteries.
>>7315709
why is this literature?
go to /his/ or back 2 reddit, your choice.
This whole book is way over my head. It takes me like an hour to completely understand any of this.
Is there a book I should read to prepare for this?
What can I do to truly understand and contemplate what Kierkegaard is saying?
>>7315645
/HIS/ /HIS/ /HIS/
My suggestion is to focus on the Knight of Faith, because I think that's the easiest thing that understand that also gives a good window into the book as a whole. What's your take on the Knight of Faith? We can go from there.
Also you're about to get >>>/his/ed so brace yourself.
>>7315647
It's literature, is it not?
Alright. I've read Blood Meridian and Child of God by McCarthy so far. Liked them both, but liked Blood Meridian more. I am thinking about starting Outer Dark now, even though it seems I'm in for more inbred hillbilly adventures. This guy is a real pervert t b h f a m. I dunno if he gets off on writing about corpse fucking and incest or what. Anywho, any of you guys like Outer Dark?
>inb4 McCarthy hating europoors
Go make your own thread pls. I'm only interested in how decent this book is out of what he has published so far.
>>7315636
he's just human
>>7315636
If you read Blood Meridian without any trouble then don't read Outer Dark, go right now and read Suttree. It is without a doubt his masterpiece - even better than Blood Meridian.
Outer Dark is a fine book but in the grand scheme of things its unremarkable. I really enjoy McCarthy's style and if you do too then I definitely suggest reading Outer Dark, but for now read Suttree.
>>7315636
I've read it all other than the border trilogy, and whilst it isn't as ambitious as blood meridian or as outright good a novel as suttree, its still great. I am also European. With McCarthy it may not be the most insanely complex or even most well written book, but you know you'll be getting a decent read at least. Outer dark definitely gives you that. Its got a horrible vibe to it, and as usual the people in it are fucked up.
Dear /lit/
Irony is the song of the prisoner who's come to love his cage.
Love,
Sincerity
How do I escape the endless maze that is irony?
>>7315529
>I'm a teenager who just discovered DFW
wow cool
>>7315536
Do you disregard anything written more than a day ago?
That's a shame
I want to write a book about people living in 2D space hunting a three-dimensional creature. I will call itMobius Dick
>>7315468
I don't know if you're joking but a book with this name already exists
>>7315468
>copying Moby Dick directly and moving it down one dimension
Why would u do this
>>7315488
I don't think that Moby Dick is a 4dimensional entity
Time to satisfy our shared book fetishism. Post you recent cops and your current backlog.
Did you read something in another's post? Share you opinion on it.
Me first:
Julio Cortazar - Hopscotch/Blow-up/We Love Glenda So Much - Everyman's Library
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice and Other Stories - Everyman's Library
Augustine - The Confessions - Everyman's Library (battered library book - $1)
Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - B&N Classics
Nabokov - Pale Fire - 1st Ed.
Maria McCann - As Meat Loves Salt
Not sure what to read first, but I'm leaning towards The Confessions.
>>7315459
And my backlog these are adding to:
Slaughterhouse Five is better than I expected it to be
I think I might read Lot 49 before I read GR, I've only read Inherent Vice before.
>>7315649
Vonnegut's always been a favorite of mine, he's like a cozier version of Orwell. After Slaughterhouse, I'd suggest Mother Night next, Which I think is his second-best work.
Lot 49 is my preferred Pynchon book, but only because I enjoy him in small doses. If you liked Vice and you end up loving Lot 49, go ahead and dive into GR and good luck.
